Quote Originally Posted by blacksambo View Post
The USA accounts for 23% of the total world consumption of goods, no other country is even close. How do you stay out that market and succeed in a global economy? Isuzu still sells us parts and will continue to do so to protect their remaining image. Other car makers like Fiat stopped selling parts to the USA and had to buy Chrysler to get an image that would fly in the USA again. Remember when FIAT stood for "Fix It Again Tony". Americans don't forget, and that's what Isuzu is afraid of confronting any too soon.
Americans do forget along ewith Fix it again Tony we have Ford Found on road dead or fix or repair daily. Ford had the exploding Pinto, Chevy had the unreliable Vega and the hidious Aztec, Toyota just recently had the surprise 0-60 cars as well as surpise my brakes don't work cars. Yet all of these car companies continue to be in business. Granted the old dealership model of requiring purchasing a dealership and setting up an exclusive lot would hurt them but if they approached existing dealers of other cars and said order what you want and sell them with the requirement of having trained mechanics for their car and honoring warranty work I bet they could beat the number of dealerships they had under GM who basically bought controlling interest to stifle competition and were no help.

GM killed the American Isuzu market