Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica Users digest V21 #177
From: Joseph Yao <joseph@yao.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 03:16:08 +0800

on 22/12/01 5:10 am, Peter Choy at pmcchoy@earthlink.net wrote:

> 
>> How about "Toyota"!?
>> 
>> "NOBODY'S going to buy a car whose name starts with "TOY.""
>> 
>> This is something i told everybody with assurance about 30 years ago.
> 
> 
> Remember the Chevy Nova?  It wasn't a big seller in Latin America.
> Maybe "no va" wasn't such a great name for a car in Spanish speaking
> markets.
> 
> Peter.

Hmmm...... I learned to drive in a Vauxhall Nova.  It was definitely a 'no
go' car.  In the UK General Motors cars are sold under the Vauxhall brand.
I understand that the Nova has been renamed Corsa.

Joseph

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