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Honda finding bumps in the road
 Date: May 27, 2003 10:37
 Submitted by:  JeffX
 Source: http://www.cleveland.com/autonews/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business/105402799767231.xml
 Credibility Rating: N/A


Here's an excerpt from the AP article. Thanks to Uncle Tom for finding this in his morning paper:
Yuri Kageyama
Associated Press

Tokyo- Honda has racked up its best profits in a half-century of existence and earned a quality ranking that U.S. automakers can only wish for.

So why is Honda's former president calling the No. 2 Japanese automaker "inferior" and "headed downhill?"

Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda's president from 1990-98, said he felt "a sense of crisis" for Honda because its growth has always been precarious as it tries to keep up with Toyota, Japan's top automaker. Kawamoto, who now acts as adviser and director at Tokyo-based Honda, is also concerned about a reshuffling of the company's top management

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05-27-2003 12:06
time for more AHM and less HMC   (Score: 1, Normal)
TonyEX
05-27-2003 12:52
Re: time for more AHM and less HMC   (Score: 1, Normal)
KenB
05-27-2003 15:28
Re: time for more AHM and less HMC   (Score: 1, Normal)
TonyEX
05-27-2003 17:45
AHM and HMC   (Score: 1, Normal)
civic_cx_92
05-27-2003 22:10
Re: time for more AHM and less HMC   (Score: 1, Normal)
soniccar
05-31-2003 01:38
Koichi Amemiya is a Honda director.   (Score: 1, Normal)
Power Of Dreams
01-13-2005 23:46
Re: Koichi Amemiya is a Honda director.   (Score: 1, Normal)
TonyEX
05-27-2003 14:16
Future for Honda world wide   (Score: 1, Normal)
george
05-27-2003 14:46
contradictory   (Score: 1, Normal)
JeffX
05-27-2003 15:22
Re: contradictory   (Score: 1, Normal)
Carmissimo
05-27-2003 17:51
Re: contradictory   (Score: 1, Normal)
george
05-27-2003 18:15
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05-27-2003 19:14
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JIN
05-27-2003 21:19
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Carmissimo
06-02-2003 13:53
Re: contradictory   (Score: 1, Normal)
PGH
05-27-2003 13:38
Pulling out of the JDM is not the Honda way.   (Score: 1, Normal)
Power Of Dreams
05-27-2003 14:52
Re: Pulling out of the JDM is not the Honda way.   (Score: 1, Normal)
Spiritualist
05-27-2003 23:46
Re: Pulling out of the JDM is not the Honda way.   (Score: 1, Normal)
mditty
05-28-2003 03:34
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V6VTEC
05-28-2003 00:01
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05-28-2003 06:14
Re: Pulling out of the JDM is not the Honda way.   (Score: 1, Normal)
mditty
05-28-2003 10:55
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TonyEX
05-28-2003 12:22
Re: Pulling out of the JDM is not the Honda way.   (Score: 1, Normal)
neech7
05-29-2003 01:43
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05-29-2003 02:20
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05-30-2003 01:23
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05-30-2003 03:02
Re: Pulling out of the JDM is not the Honda way.   (Score: 1, Normal)
Racer 209
05-31-2003 02:11
Re: Pulling out of the JDM is not the Honda way.   (Score: 1, Normal)
Power Of Dreams
05-27-2003 11:52
Honda is headed downhill...   (Score: 1, Normal)
Spiritualist
05-27-2003 22:39
Re: Honda is headed downhill...   (Score: 1, Normal)
soniccar
05-27-2003 14:44
The article doesn't say very much   (Score: 1, Normal)
see_ping
05-27-2003 14:54
Re: The article doesn't say very much   (Score: 1, Normal)
dydx
05-27-2003 16:32
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05-27-2003 22:17
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soniccar
05-27-2003 12:11
"the US market to honda is nothing okay?" - ragnarok   (Score: 1, Normal)
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