thoughts on Euro cars: Japanese cars

[Aleksander Mierzwa]

At 08:12 01-09-07 -0400, Roger M. Woodbury wrote:

>Anyway, my chief disagreements with the Camry were that Toyota, and all the
>other Japanese cars as far as I know, are gimmick crazy.  Two buttons for
>every function, and not commonly located.  To turn on the cruise control,
>the circuit has to be turned on using a switch on the right side of the
>instrument panel...thins like that.

Take a look at the OEM radio on a late 80s Ford Scorpio (Merkur to you
Americans). It is obvious that the radio was designed by the British Ford
division - both the casette slot and the more important knobs are located
on the right hand side of the unit - convenient on the RHD cars, but PITA
on the LHD ones.

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Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
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