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posted July 18, 2004 10:56 AM
If Kawasaki built a car..
What would it be like?
Would it be your typical ricer econobox?
Viper killer?
GT4 clone?
Vette destroyer?
Personally, I think it would be close to a Vette in size and closer to a Viper in performance and driving experience.
Funny how the japanese start first with barebones econobox. Honda started that way, Suzuki never got past it.
  
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posted July 18, 2004 12:12 PM
...an uber-Mule???? 
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posted July 18, 2004 02:20 PM
was it yamaha that made a (prototype) car several years back?
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posted July 18, 2004 03:05 PM
KHI makes tractors, trucks, airplanes, dockyard cranes, and for all I know, locomotives. Why in hell couldn't they build a car if they wanted to?
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posted July 18, 2004 04:03 PM
...it fun to imagineer an ichiban car from Kawasaki...and we know how Kawasaki is about making horsepower...and now, handling....
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swft
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posted July 18, 2004 05:54 PM
kz2zx - Before you go spending billions in development, always a good idea to research the market. Which they prolly have done...
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kz2zx
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posted July 18, 2004 05:59 PM
that was the 'if they wanted to' part.
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posted July 18, 2004 06:35 PM
Seen any of the Bullet Trains they build........Aircraft, Ships? Largest Engineering Company in the World a Car would be beneath them but if they did decide to just Imagine........!
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posted July 19, 2004 04:32 AM
Don't they already have a mini pikup for the japanese market?? I know older Dodge D50 pickup trucks had Kawasaki engines. I've seen them .
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swft
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posted July 19, 2004 05:45 AM
Beneath them?? Fook, who makes more money, a company that sells 10 20 million dollar trains, or one that sells 20 million cars that cost 20 thousand each?
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posted July 19, 2004 01:59 PM
if there was an american bike with the hp, looks, handling of the 10 i
would have bought it! as for a car give me a viper or vette over any
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posted July 19, 2004 05:00 PM
speedo would be waay off
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