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while I commend you to openly state your disgust with a manufacturer about their business choices, I would like to point out that the Chinese are not the only ones to do this.
Suzuki has dropped several promising models that were extremely short lived and abandoned the customer on what were high cost @ the time models. eg: RE5
Suzuki is a Japanese company.
Isuzu and Daewoo have abandoned the american market after having a long time presence. Their manufacturing base was of course Japan & S. Korea in that order.
PSA has consolidated many of their models, thereby abandoning a large segment of their customers and they of course are Italian.
Ford motor company has already consolidated many models including world markets, and will be further reducing models to about 9 over time. They are an American company.
There are lots more examples like Diamo. Tank, Daelim, Aprilia, Binelli for scooters and motorcycles -- then there are companies like MG, Triumph that made cars- it is a business decision for most, and it shows more about their senior management malfunctions in search of profits than anything else. They are sending very clear signals of companies in financial trouble with incompetent management like that of the US bailed out Government Motors and Chrysler.
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