>>>>>>>>Interesting is that the puck is made in Canada. That was surprising; I thought everything is made in China :) (and I agree that Bruins are not at the top of the game this year).
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>>>>>>>I imagined hockey pucks being made in Chine (the usual cheap plastic stuff) :). Every shot would be shattering the puck to small pieces. They would have to start making hockey sticks in China too; to match them to the plastic pucks :)
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>>>>>>About half-century ago, the joke used to be "made in Japan"
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>>>>>So true. I remember in the early 80s they used to say, "if you want to buy a good car, pay more, and buy American. And if you want to buy a cheap and not so nice cars, Japanese".
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>>>>Which was pure marketing BS - the japanese cars in early 80s were almost impossible to kill with normal wear&tear, in the late 80s they had achieved curve and high speeds handling similar to most non-german cars. They lost manufacturing finish in the 90s (Toyota/Lexus and Subaru to a much smaller degree, Mitsubishi and Nissan were hit pretty hard in some of their lines) and now Korean cars have taken the place of the sturdy and not overpriced cars.
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>>>You could be right. But this is the "BS" I would hear even from auto mechanics back then.
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>>Back then I was working for one of the 2 outfits responisible for the european version of the blue book, so I had access to a lot of different data sources.
>>Consumer satisfaction was very high, the discounts for new cars, which usually translated into a high early loss were very small on those cars.
>>As I was the one defining the statistical corrections for models in each line, I am quite certain of the data quality and error margins introduced by small samples necessary due to being not the most often sold model of a company/line combination.
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>>As a side benefit I was often invited to press introductions of new models - typically a couple of dozen drivers for a batch of the new car models, exchanging cars every few H when given the next snack. So I am certain I had more knowledge than gained by a few test drives when deciding to buy next car ;-)
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>>Auto mechanics servicing those jap brands had definately less work to do during a cars lifetime (although prices for parts were on a level of expensive german cars, if push came to shove). As long as you did not smash those cars they were very good - although small compared to US standards, which is/was more a function of gasoline prices and parking spaces available.
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>You certainly know much more about cars than I do.

Only of those of last millenium, then I went into data coddling for an insurance company - back when data warehouse & business intelligence was not bullshit bingo trump ;-)
And the repair jobs I did on first car and before that on castrated motor bikes available to those under 18 in germa law back then were worth the money I paid myself ;-))