Re: the share held by banks

[GGard97342@xxxxxx]

In a message dated 14/04/01 18:12:27 GMT Daylight Time, w_b_ryan@xxxxxxxxxxx
writes:

> The typical Japanese car in America is driven 200,000 miles by three or
four
> successive owners.  In Japan that same car is literally forced off the
> road at 30,000 miles through onerous "safety" and "emission" regulations.&
> nbsp; The car is scrapped and broken down for parts which are not consumed
> locally--that is not permitted--but shipped overseas.  Boatload after
> boatload of low mileage Japanese engines thereby arrive at American ports,
> presumably to replace the Japanese "interference" engines which
self-destruct
> when their timing belts break at 80,000 miles.

I thought they were exported to New Zealand and other nearby countries which
drive on the left.

Geoff Gardiner