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28 May |
I’m certainly not an elitist hipster, but I do enjoy listening to music an awful lot. Actually, most people do. I suppose it’s when you start thinking that the music you enjoy is the only good kind of music, that you become a music snob. Anyway, I like most every kind of music, and I’m always eager to try to learn about new kinds of music and why people like them. I have to admit, though, that I’m a tiny bit of a snob when it comes to the quality of speakers.
Low fidelity speakers are kinder to some genres than others, but any can benefit from a sound system that reproduces sounds accurately and with a healthy, robust volume at each pitch. That’s why the stereos that come packaged with cars annoy me. Not so much because they aren’t amazingly great, but just because they cost like they should be, and aren’t. I’m sure if you buy a thirty thousand dollar car it has a nice stereo, but anyway they always cost five times as much as they should. I found out you can get Toyota accessories like stereos online pretty easily. I’m not just talking cheap impersonation Toyota parts, either. You can find official genuine Toyota parts, like cd players, speakers, mp3 players, etc.
read comments (0)| Is it all bad news for U.S. Automakers? |
3 May |
Apparently the news is not all bad for auto manufacturers in the United States. At least as it relates to subsidiaries of U.S. companies that are manufacturing and selling their vehicles in China. Companies like GM that are dangerously close to declaring restructuring bankruptcy status here in America, are growing by nearly 25% in the mainland of China.
Several U.S. companies are claiming a stake in the over 1.11 million auto units sold per month in China. Be clear, however, these are not automobiles that are built in the U.S. and imported to the Far East. These are local plants building vehicles with the use of local labor.
Apparently, China’s drivers are coming into their own love affair with the prospect of owning their own cars. Much like American’s love of affordable cars and fuel in the 50’s and 60’s, citizens of the largest country in the world are finding social status and pleasure associated with auto ownership.
With the help of the Chinese government, both manufacturers and car buyers are receiving assistance to help the automotive industry hit boom times. And with billions of potential customers, why not? Now if U.S. manufacturers could make a product worthy of importing to China…
