Japan's fourth- largest carmaker would trim its staff, eliminate half its dozen passenger-car platforms and shutter plants in Thailand and New Zealand.

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The cure Kawasoe proposed was almost as shocking: Japan's fourth- largest carmaker would trim its staff, eliminate half its dozen passenger-car platforms and shutter plants in Thailand and New Zealand.

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Besides, dealers can still make decent money on service and used car sales, so they aren't terribly motivated to shutter a family business built over generations.

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