My Italian Car and the Japanes Army Airforce in 1930's

I drive an Itarian car in Japan.
It is a small and sporty car with beautiful shape, color and interior.
Especially I like thick leathe seat. It is maual shift drive and there are two kinds of shifting systems.
One is a stick on the floor and the other is "plus and minus" buttons on the backside of a steering
handle. It runs well with an exiting motor roaring.
There is no dealership of this manifucture in the U.S. so you see only old models which were imported more than 15 years ago.

The other day the dealer in Japna send me a letter saying "Your car is better to change the timing belt of the engine. It costs about US$1200-." The mileage meter shows only 25000 miles (that is 40000km)
What? Regular cheap Japanese cars' timing belt last at least 100000km and it costs one third of
that Itarians'.

In 1935, Japanese Army Air Force imported 85 Fiat BR20 twin engines bombers from Italia.
The engine of the plane was A-80RC 14 cylinders,1000hp.
It looked very high performance plane.
Japanese Army Airforce used them during the conflict between USSR in 1941.
In 1937 ,Japanese Army developed their own twin engines bomber by Mitsubishi. After 1937,
85 Italian bombers were not used because theywere needed frequent parts changes and the war in Europe getting busy and there was less supply of the parts from Italy.

This is the same king of phenomenon except they have good supply of parts.
Now I understand why they do not sell their cars in the U.S. market. American consumeres
are more strit than European and Japanese.

see, http://www.japaneseweapons.com