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Re:“High End” Apartment Construction Creates Mismatch of Sup... by Symmetry on Saturday October 13, 2018 @09:25AM (#18207814)
Back during the Reagan years when the US restricted Japanese car manufacturers to only shipping a certain number of cars per year to the US Toyota responded by no longer selling Camrys and introducing the high end Lexus brand.
Re:“High End” Apartment Construction Creates Mismatch of Sup... by whyenot on Saturday October 13, 2018 @11:48AM (#18208502)
Lexus launched in 1989, a year after Reagan left office. The line was developed in response to voluntary export restraints initiated by the Japanese government, not US restrictions.