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QueerJustice Donating Member (457 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 01:47 AM
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Every 9 minutes in Israel, someone buys a Mazda 3
Everywhere you look you see a new Mazda? It's not your imagination. Since the beginning of the year, Delek Motors, importer of Mazda and Ford, has sold 22,241 cars made by the Japanese automaker. Of these, 15,516 were the Mazda 3 model.




It is difficult to detract from the importance of that number. Statistically, it means that during showroom operating hours, once every nine minutes, a Mazda 3 is sold. Once every 6.5 minutes, some Mazda model is sold.

This also means that one in every 82 families has bought a Mazda 3 this year. In total, one in every 57 families has bought a new Mazda in the first 11 months of the year.

These numbers are similar to the figures posted by Israel's all-time best-selling car in its late-'80s heyday: the Subaru Leone. The overall number of cars sold in Israel today is much greater than the late `80s and early `90s, but competition is also as fierce as it has ever been - severely limiting growth potential for sales star Mazda 3.

The secret to Mazda 3's success lies in corporate

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/518487.html

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Not a very attractive car...I prefer an Alfa Romeo myself.....



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Paleocon Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 08:17 AM
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1. What does this have to do with Israeli / Palestinian relations???
This isn't the "general news about Israel" forum.
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drdon326 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 09:18 AM
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2. Joke of the day....
Edited on Sat Dec-25-04 09:41 AM by drdon326

" During a press conference, a reporter asked bush if he was in favor

of the Kyoto Accords.....















And "our" president (:eyes:) responded he preferred the

Toyota Camry.
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drdon326 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 09:22 AM
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3. OH C'MON.....THATS FUNNY !!!!
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QueerJustice Donating Member (457 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 03:46 PM
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4. as long as its not a...
PEUGEOT all is OK....
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 05:54 PM
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5. It Is Funny, Doctor
Thanks for the laugh....

"The mind wobbles...."
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drdon326 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 06:00 PM
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6. Tough crowd.
"I know you're out there, I hear you breathing".
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Paleocon Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 07:32 PM
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7. Tell the one about the Palestinian family attacked by 5 Israeli girls...
I love that one! ! !

Har har har!!!

:silly:
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 11:21 PM
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8. But That Story, Sir, Is Not A Joke
What the person who put the originating article up had in mind is quite beyond me, but the good Doctor's hest was funny....
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