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(405en:000078) Re: Hi

Hi Kohji-san (btw I'm sorry for my reply to Masashige Koizumi, i didn't put his name because I didn't knew wich was last and first name and did not wanted to make a mistake ^^, so I wanted to apalogize. Sumimasen! ^_^; ) 

On Mar 10, 2004, at 1:45 PM, MATSUBAYASHI 'Shaolin' Kohji wrote:


Hi Sebastien-san,

BTW, the orkut info on most DNS servers seems to get lost
for a while - did you have the same problem over there?
The server itself seems to be still alive (by using the IP address).
I assume I have the same problem with orkut but I don't have the ip adress so I havn't checked on it ^^, 


I just expected such response from you :)


For the anime fan thing ? ;)
Maybe, I tend to think too that when we grow up we try to look elsewhere than home and homeland because we think we already knew it enought throught our childhood ^_^,
But I think it's good. Being interested not only in our own country makes us more comprehensive with foreigners and foreign habits. 


All people in the world (including ourselves) may look up to
any kinda things outside/overseas, and they tend to miss the
greatest things of their homemades. I believe this may apply
to all regions/races/etc.


These are words of true wisdom Kohji-san ^_^


However, I must note that, mainly because of historical reasons
(such as World War II), we Japanese tend to blindly look more up
to Euro-American products and culture...
Yeah I discovered this a few time after I began my anime collection, while I was looking for information about japan on google. I found some very interesting reviews about this.
Like you said, Japanese people tend to look more up to Euro-American products and culture. But I learned that Japan was very "closed" before this, so the interest in the rest of the world that grew up is something good. :) 


Anyway here's my question - how do you (as a French person) imagine
why we Japanese Pug people love our 405? :)


Honestly? I don't know ^_^,
Guessing it would be because of the fact the style of the car is radically different of what can be found in japanese production ^_^ it's really a hard question, I'm think I'll try my joker (tasukete!) \(^o^)/ 


It's very interesting to see how other countries' people look at
and think of their cars and their foreign cars.


Yes :)


Maybe most Japanese people (except too conservative people) think
the same about domestic Japanese cars.
I think - no offense - it's because japanese car industry may be facing the same gloominess our car industry had 15 to 25 years ago. In other hand they were innovating when our car industry was in their bad years. 


I remember when I tripped throughout France -
I was surprised that I found so many "repair shops" around
main streets, where a number of Citroens (mainly BX),
old Pugs (such as 104) and old Renaults are lifted up.
Here in Japan, we seldom see such convenient repair shops,
while most of the drivers join to emergency services (called JAF).
Well, if the emergency services you are talking about is like "peugeot assistance" or "renault assistance" it's because in France most emergency services for car try to work with partnered repair shops. As this they don't have to create garages from scratch and the exisitng repair shops can be recognize as "official peugeot repair shop" or something like that. 


Thanks for your comment. That may be what we'd like to hear from you :)


You're welcome :)
All this is very interesting. I'm surprizing myself as I always thought I wasn't well aware of car-related stuff. It may be genetic with my father who is a car-lover and who was a racing driver when he was young ^_^, 


BTW most ordinary Japanese people tends to replace their cars
every three (or five) years, before their cars run only a few
hundred thousands kilometres - can you imagine that??
My father was doing that, but it was more because he likes to have new cars ;) There are people who change their car currently in France too, but there is people who like to use the most of the car too :) I have an uncle that got a 405 GRD for almost ten years and I think almost 200000 km :) 


 Vice President & PPC Maintainer, Project Vine  shaolin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


Sorry, but does PPC stand for PowerPC like in Apple computers? ;)

That's all folks!

Sebastien