Before 1984, the dominant exporter of cars to China had been the Soviet Union. In 1984, Japan’s automobile exports to China increased sevenfold (from 10,800 to 85,000) and by mid-1985 China had turn out to be Japan’s second biggest export market after the US. The country spent some $three billion to import more than 350,000 automobiles (together with 106,000 vehicles and 111,000 vehicles) in 1985 alone.
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By the late 1970s, Vegas were being scrapped at such a high price that many junkyards refused to buy them. In his 1979 guide On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors, former GM government John DeLorean devoted a whole chapter to the Vega, describing how the Vega did poorly in sturdiness testing and that GM knew about its quality problems prior to launch. Toyota has always been by far Japan’s largest automaker, and it lately overtook perennial world chief …