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Old January 10, 2014, 06:56 PM   #31
jimbob86
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Not to get off-topic, but the K-Platform was wildly successful.
Due to what, exactly? Agressive Marketing, the overvaluation of the Yen, protectionist crash test standards and a "Buy American!" sentiment* that caught on in the late 1970's, mostly ......

And "wildly successful" compared to what? The over-engineered, gas guzzling, unreliable junk Chrysler had been slinging? Not a very high standard to meet .....

They were boxy, simple, (fairly) reliable cars that were not made in Japan or Germany...... and by the 90's they had to pay people to buy them (remember the "Cash Back Rebate!" ......

They were just not that good .... but better than most of the domestic cars that cars they replaced ...... and more profitable, because they not only were cheaper to produce, they actually sold ...... which is probably a pretty close parallel with the S&W Sigma- the heavy, expensive, often finicky (with HP ammo) semi-auto pistols that Smith was marketing were getting killed in the marketplace by cheap, reliable polymer guns from overseas (Austria and Germany, but mostly Austria) .....

*(Sing it with me now: "Look For ...... The Union La-bel ......" ......

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