Originally Posted By: Argo44
Is a Chevy still a Chevy now with all the foreign made parts? Is a Jeep Renegade made in Torino a Jeep? Is a Toyota built in Kentucky a Japanese car? Is a Mercedes built in Tuscaloosa a German car? Is a Maytag built by Whirlpool a "Maytag?" Conundrums.


The answer is an emphatic yes.

Just because the owners of the brand are fine with debasing the brand value, built up over many years, by selling crap with a good name on it, doesn't change it.

Rolls, Ferarri, Patek Philippe, Purdey remain highly valued because they rarely debase their brand name.

Rocketman's valuation charts are wonderful for emphasizing this fact using a real world data base.

The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia