End of JDM as we know it?

[SmrPants44]

“If the exchange rate becomes increasingly unfavorable, we would simply have to transfer more production overseas, cut more temporary workers and even start laying off permanent jobs,” Fukui explained.


“Beyond that we could switch to importing more cars into Japan, bring research and development facilities overseas, and in an extreme scenario move our headquarters offshore. It would cause nothing short of a hollowing out of Japanese industry.”

http://www.leftlanenews.com/ceo-strong-yen-weak-sales-could-force-honda-to-leave-japan.html

I'm sure its all posturing, but the CEO of Honda threatened to move HQ out of Japan if the Japanese government continues to do nothing about the rising value of the Japanese Yen.

 

[Fundillo]

bad times, bad times...

 

[JMillerUA6]

What will all the JDM fanboys do?!?!?!?!?!

 

[DarkSideAccord]

yeah, all japanese companies are suffering now due to less demand and higher production costs... the gov show really try and stop the yen from appreciating... maybe stop the carry trade and not let ppl short sell the yen in favor of other currencies? or maybe raise interest rates?

 

[CrosCntryAccord]

What will all the JDM fanboys do?!?!?!?!?!

probably join the emo fan boys..... time to invest in razor blade companies

 

[A-cord]

Honda indicated its operating profits will be 180 billion yen ($2 billion), down 67 percent from the forecasted 550 billion yen.

wow.. that's amazingly bad..

 

[tnguyen600]

there will still be those guys that are hardcore JDM with mentality such as this...

-I'm so JDM I sleep on the right side of my bed
-I'm so JDM my blood type is Type R
-I'm so JDM that I walk on the right side of the sidewalk
-I'm so JDM I put everything sideways
-I'm so JDM that I married a japanese girl just to get a discount on parts
-I'm so JDM my bed has sidemarkers and fog lights
-I'm so JDM I think a steering wheel on the left side of the car is a conversion
-I'm so JDM even my toothbrush has been tuned for maximum VTEC potential
-I'm so JDM i'm radiated from the atom bomb
-I'm so JDM that I only drive with my right eye open
-I'm so JDM I bow instead of shake hands
-I'm so JDM i put a T infront of my name (Tsukuba, Tsuchiya, Toyota...)
-I'm so JDM i got a carbon fiber backpack with a Sparco Steering wheel strapped on to the back
-I'm so JDM my right hand is carbon fiber
-I'm so JDM that my first word was VTEC

lol just thought that was funny. my bad.

 

[score04w]

ahahaha those were all good ones, +1

 

[LoveLee]

all the "fanboys" i know are retards. they might as well be ricers with how they drool over "jdm" hazard buttons, and ebrakes. OHEMGEE!!

 

[SmrPants44]

wow.. that's amazingly bad..

not as bad as Toyotas fall from grace...

As anticipated late last week, Toyota on Monday forecast an operating loss of $1.66 billion for the fiscal year ending March 2009....Last fiscal year, Toyota posted an operating profit of about $25 billion

http://www.leftlanenews.com/toyota-predicts-first-ever-operating-loss.html

I guess Honda's lack of a real truck & V8 isnt such a bad thing after all....