Representatives from both General Motors and Chrysler have told trade journal Automotive News that neither company will have any official presence at the Tokyo Motor Show, even if there is a Tokyo Motor Show.
"If you're going to the Tokyo Motor Show to raise the corporate flag or just to it for corporate presence, I think those days are gone," GM's Asia Pacific President Rick Brown told the trade journal. "It's not a good business decision."
A written statement from Chrysler Japan said that the company would pull out of the show "in order to secure limited resources."
And Ford? According to Japan's Yomiuri newspaper, Ford missed last year's deadline to register for the show.
estreka says:
07:33 PM, 01/17/09
Detroit has never done well in Japan anyway.
On a side note, those balloons are so cute, in a Hello Kitty kinda way. And I'm secure enough in my masculinity to say that.