kjh
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You can not really blame the Japanese car manufactures for not making more sports cars when their home market is all about mini vans and kei cars. The youth do not buy sports cars anymore. The Supra, NSX, RX-7 and many others hot hatches of the 80 and 90s was product of the Japanese spending money on sports cars and tuning to go drifting or racing on the wangan. I think much of the magic was the Japanese way of doing engineering, being isolated from the rest of the world (galƔpagos syndrome). You still can find glimpses of it with the LFA (the new LC500), the GTR and Mazda design language. German car companies have always had a strong home and UK market for cars with big horse power. Also racing have been big in Europe. Most of the F1 teams have HQ in the UK for example.
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