Japanese Cars in France

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Sun 22 Dec 2002 16:22
Japanese Cars in France - Paul Robinson
Does anyone happen to know the most popular brand of Japanese car in France?
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Sun 22 Dec 2002 18:36
Japanese Cars in France - Trilly
Have not got a clue to the answer but intersted as to why you would want to know?
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Sun 22 Dec 2002 21:50
Japanese Cars in France - Ben79
Will "Les Francais" start driving Nissans now they are part owned by Renault? Micra v Clio v C3? That would be a moral dilemma for the French.

Ben
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Sun 22 Dec 2002 23:17
Japanese Cars in France - Honestjohn
What the ****'s going on. I spent 15 minutes searching through SMMT tomes to answer this, answered it, and now my answer has disappeared. There's something very wrong with The Backroom. The answer was Toyota with 50 spomething thousand.

HJ
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Sun 22 Dec 2002 23:29
Japanese Cars in France - Cardew
They make the Yaris with the 1.0 engine in France don't they? Do they make(assemble) any other Toyota models there?

C
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Mon 23 Dec 2002 09:16
Japanese Cars in France - Mark (RLBS)
I suspect that the Backroom logged you out before you had clicked on Post.

This happens if there is longer than 20 minutes or so between you clicking "Reply" and then actually finishing that reply.

If you have a look in announcements there is a rather long note from me there which explains.

Mark.
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Mon 23 Dec 2002 08:28
Japanese Cars in France - Paul Robinson
In answer to Trilly (don't know how to make my answer appear in the right place!) I have someone who is planning a venture that will involve a lot of travel around France. They want a Japanese car for reliability, but if the worst were to happen and they breakdown they want the best chance of getting it repaired in France.

Thanks to the others for the information.
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Mon 23 Dec 2002 09:02
Japanese Cars in France - El Hacko
from Renault's gremlin-ridden automatic gearboxes and Peugeot's dodgy electrics to leaking Fords and Vauxhall's sick sensors .. thanks to this splendid site we learn about the vehicles it's best to avoid buying. But why is it that car manufacturers across the world do not seem to able (or want?) to build in the sort of reliability that the Japanese have successfully achieved?

El Hacko (delighted, Lexus owner)
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Mon 23 Dec 2002 10:14
Japanese Cars in France - Harmattan
Further to HJ's reply, information on main dealers is on the Toyota France website from www.toyota.fr/dealers/index.asp

Toyota appears to have a pretty good network in major cities and towns. Daihatsu France also have dealer/service information on their site but far fewer agents, and it would be worth trying some of the other Japanese companies by doing a web search.
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Mon 23 Dec 2002 10:52
Japanese Cars in France - T Lucas
If the average French mechanic/workshop can service/repair all those dreadful French sheds then when he gets the oportunity to work on a Toyota or Nissan he will think he has died and gone to heaven.As to parts,no problem,or source direct from the UK and have them DHL or FedEX next day.
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Mon 23 Dec 2002 13:56
Japanese Cars in France - Honestjohn
Toyota built sixtysomething thousand Yaris in france in 2001, but that wasn't a full year. No figs yet for this year.

HJ
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