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* Bad customer/tech support is often joked/portrayed as [[Operator From India|coming from India]] (if you're American, British or Australasian) or Eastern Europe (if you're European, although Europeans also get a lot of awful calls from India too).

* Even American products aren't immune to this; for a very long time after [[The Seventies]], [[Motor City|Detroit]] cars were [[The Alleged Car|seen as crap]] (but see below for a major exception). It's only been ''very'' recently that this has changed. Ditto for British volume-produced cars.

** The automobile industry is simply awash in this trope, but usually inverted, with companies producing elegant luxury goods outside their home region and more modest products within. In the United States, German companies are known for producing dazzling luxury cards, VW withstanding. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/violinsoldier/222168946/ And then you see this rolling down a dirt path in Afghanistan.] Aside from the occasional sports car, Ford in the US means either trucks or modest sedans. Australia and Europe have [http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/ford-fg-falcon-g6e-turbo.htm models like this.] Here are a [http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-american-cars-not-sold-in-america.php few more] American cars Americans in the States don't get to buy. And while many Europeans would think nothing of it, Americans may be surprised to see [[wikipedia:Mercedes-Benz Citaro|Mercedes buses.]] Japan is a notable exception, with relatively few European or American high end luxury models but fleets and fleets of practical consumer cars.

** The automobile industry is simply awash in this trope, but usually inverted, with companies producing elegant luxury goods outside their home region and more modest products within. In the United States, German companies are known for producing dazzling luxury cards, VW withstanding. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/violinsoldier/222168946/ And then you see this rolling down a dirt path in Afghanistan.] Aside from the occasional sports car, Ford in the US means either trucks or modest sedans. Australia and Europe have [https://web.archive.org/web/20131224203217/http://www.webwombat.com.au/motoring/news_reports/ford-fg-falcon-g6e-turbo.htm models like this.] Here are a [http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-american-cars-not-sold-in-america.php few more] American cars Americans in the States don't get to buy. And while many Europeans would think nothing of it, Americans may be surprised to see [[wikipedia:Mercedes-Benz Citaro|Mercedes buses.]] Japan is a notable exception, with relatively few European or American high end luxury models but fleets and fleets of practical consumer cars.

*** And now Chrysler is trying to invoke and invert this, starting with an ad spot featuring [[Eminem]] during the 2011 [[Super Bowl]]: 'Imported from Detroit'.

** British cars produced en masse [[The Alleged Car|cranked this trope]] [[Up to Eleven]] in the 1970s, and never fully recovered. Before then, they were among the world's best. See also the True Art Is Made in Country X below.