We gave them new, nice German cars, American radios, the US kind of looking badges and painting which we gave them.
Although imports have become dearer, those relatively affluent consumers who favour French cosmetics and German cars are unlikely to find Russian goods acceptable substitutes.
Sure, you get a rear-wheel-drive setup with those German cars, and that means something far closer to true sports car handling, at least as traditionalists would have it.
Moreover, these countries sell similar things to each other: cars made in France are exported to Germany, while German cars go to France, dependent largely upon consumers' differing tastes rather than differences in costs.
Even if a scheme is introduced, as some expect, in the April 22nd budget or soon after, do not expect a German Sturmflut: the average age of British cars is seven years, whereas that of German cars is eight-and-a-half.
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For all the talk of competition, politicians in Brussels and Frankfurt should be praying for growth in America just as their peers in Washington, DC, should be pleased to hear about China's nouveaux riches ordering German cars and French claret.
German luxury cars are high on that list.
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Browning talked with The Associated Press and other outlets at the start of the show's media days about sales, tailoring German engineered cars for American buyers, growth in sales of diesel-powered vehicles and the possible unionization of the company's U.S. factory in Tennessee.
Traditional German industries like cars and machine-tools have made themselves fit by shedding hundreds of thousands of workers.
Google spent roughly that much fitting out each of the dozen or so robotic vehicles it has built by modifying American, German and Japanese cars.
German people love their cars but car-sharing means you don't have your own car.
Daimler is a fully integrated German maker of luxury cars, famed for its world-class design and engineering.
If all works as intended, it could prove to be a huge improvement over the convoluted control knobs on German and Japanese luxury cars.
The brothers and their sister Olivia, who won 4x100m silver at the Beijing Olympics, are now sponsored by a German brand of luxury cars.
And interestingly enough, all the German and Japanese companies that make cars in America, they were all for that restructuring deal.
The German and Korean makers that send cars here would argue that they shouldn't pay because most of their workers are not here but in their homelands.
Aston is rumoured to be in talks with Daimler to take over design and production of the German firm's Maybach luxury cars, rivals to Rolls and Bentley in price, if not in style and sales.
The German carmaker sold 9.07 million cars last year, up 11% from 2011.
Japanese, South Korean and German models now account for half the cars sold in America, for example (though many of these are built in American factories).
The German makers, who build the biggest, fastest cars, and are therefore having to spend most to reduce their emissions, are in favour of such a subsidy.
Over the long term weak demand for cars in Europe threatens seriously to affect the German car industry and its network of suppliers.
Things could come to a head at the Frankfurt motor show next month, where, according to German car magazine Automobilwoche, the disputed Shuanghuan's cars will be on display.
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The plans may be contentious in Parliament, though, with some German MEPs fearing their impact on manufacturers building bigger, heavier cars.
For some reason those cars, many of them made in Germany to German levels of engineering excellence, are not seen in Japan.
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Wouldn't there be just as many people selling cars, repairing cars, and selling you parts for those cars, even if all the cars were made by companies owned by Japanese and German firms, lets say?
That means imports such as oil or cars would become almost twice as expensive, while a German could vacation on Crete for half the price.
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