From: Darrell Ramsell (daram@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Sep 16 2005 - 14:00:11 PDT
The Japanese Mega Cruiser is nothing. You want to talk about blatant
copying. Look at the Chinese new HMMWV.
http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.63/pub_detail.asp (near the
bottom of the page).
Darrell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Interesting Convoy (Heading to a Town Near You)
> At 10:43 AM -0700 9/16/05, uniquemachine@cybcon.com wrote:
>>They copied our HUMVEE...
>>They copied the M37...
>>They copied the jeep...
>
> The M37 and Jeep were copied because the US army needed lots in a hurry.
> The fact that the plants were a hop/skip and jump away from Korea made the
> logistics simple to the extreme allowing more material like ammo and
> combat vehicles to be shipped over
>
>>
>>Hmmmmm.................... Maybe we should charge them
>>royalties?
>
> That was all included in the plan. Besides, I think Toyota IS probably
> paying AM General for something if they're beholden. They're a pretty good
> company and seem to be good corporate citizens.
>
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