[eagleeye]

another historical retrospective,...

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cu...-subaru-became-the-unofficial-car-of-vermont/

 

[John Doe]

Kind of an interesting article

https://jalopnik.com/how-subaru-outsmarted-a-bad-consumer-reports-review-and-1824032036

 

[rasterman]

Nice article. I do disagree with them on one point- the same thing still happens today. Granted, the internet makes it harder, but language barriers are still pretty strong. If a product doesn't work in one market they can try again in another where nobody speaks/reads the language used in the bad reviews. Back then there wasn't much of a market for cars in China, but there is now. Other non-English-speaking economies have grown up since then too.

 

[eagleeye]

merged to existing thread,

jalopnik article is about the road&track article.