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Re:Maruti Suzuki won over India’s car market with Japanese i... by OJFord on Monday October 19, 2020 @07:07AM (#24825181)
There's also that 'famous' story about a non-Indian manufacturer that under-tested horn cycles: scratching their heads wondering why so many were coming in with failed horns (or whatever specific piece), turns out they truly were getting used more than whatever number of activations they were spec'd to.

(It may be apocryphal, but fun story/business lesson (think that's where I heard it) regardless. Edit if I find it.)

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Re:Maruti Suzuki won over India’s car market with Japanese i... by bluGill on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:16AM (#24825628)
I know in my last trip to India at least one of my drivers had a button on the dash for the horn - presumably because the original had broke
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Re:Maruti Suzuki won over India’s car market with Japanese i... by ISL on Monday October 19, 2020 @10:51AM (#24826887)
At least half of the Ghanaian taxis we rode in had re-wired the horn to the high-beam stalk-pull. That way, one need not take hands off the wheel to actuate the horn (and I suspect the steering-wheel-center horn switch had broken).
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