Originally Posted by Nightshade
The US is not the be all end all of the car purchasing market. Although we make up a great number of the market there are many countries not so hung up on some stupid fukking name as we are and the prestige that goes with the reputation of the company.
Dressing a pig in silk clothes makes it no less a pig...so what I am saying is even a Maybach is just another Benz, an Infiniti is still just another Nissan etc.
I guarantee you its not just the US stuck on "some stupid fukking name". I'm willing to bed that if Honda of Japan did the same thing as the US and released an Acura brand, they'd sell more of the upscale cars.