Posted on 03/17/2018 12:22:44 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Three toed sloths hate Trump too.
I gotta say, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Japanese did something like that. They’re kinda weird, in an endearing way.
You don’t think it’s a funny joke?
Many American car wouldn’t even FIT on many Japanese streets.
:p
I was very surprised a few years ago when I saw a Hummer driving through Shibuya.
It would have been even funnier if he had said it ON the Missouri, not in Missouri.
Of course tests using bowling balls were not made. President Trump was using the figure of speech called a metaphor. To take what he said literally reveals a failure of language understanding.
Not a joke. A metaphor.
The Japanese have no sense of humor!
They would take a ball bearing and let it roll down the gap between the hood and fender. If the gap wasn't even, from end to end, they wouldn't buy the car.
No US cars could pass the test. They wondered why Americans were tolerating such junk...
Yeah, Hummers l, Escalades, Lamboughinis, Mauybachs galore here in Tokyo, but you cant get them down every street in town.
http://www.nasva.go.jp/mamoru/en/assessment_car/head_protection_test.html
They do indeed do a “bowling ball” sort of test. It is to simulate head impacts.
Countries like Japan, Korea, Germany etc sell their vehicles here with NO penalties.
Try selling a Harley or Cadillac in one of these places. Korea, 400 percent import tax, Japan? ya can’t sell there, too many import blocks. Germany? good luck but hey, all youse countries can screw America.
How about duties?
“I was very surprised a few years ago when I saw a Hummer driving through Shibuya.”
Well, I was in Kyoto and saw a Chevy 3/4 ton crew cab dualie. It had a California front place and one of those “neon” Japanese license plates on the back. But you’re right it almost didn’t fit. It was white, which is the color the government says all cars there should be because it makes them cheaper to produce. The Japanese people are such lemmings when it comes to doing what the government wants them to do.
Why don’t the Japs do a deer head impact test? There are 50,000 ( not a misprint) car/deer accidents per year in the state of Michigan alone.
There are so many car/deer accidents that many go unreported when there is little damage, or older cars without full coverage Ins.
Have the “fact checkers” responded yet? Trump’s joke are their favorite chance to increment their “lie counter” - it’s so easy to get an unnamed source to say it’s untrue so the counter goes up. /sarc
You know we’re going to find out in a few weeks that it’s true.
“Why dont the Japs do a deer head impact test? “
We do actually.
The NHIS runs collision tests and many, MANY foreign cars fail to meet the mark.
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