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The term "gentleman's agreement" has its roots in the very distant 1907, and more specifically, the informal agreement between the US and Japan provided for the removal of a law aimed at overtly Japanese immigrants and in return for that, to limit migration of laborers from Japan to the US There was no written agreement ... Just the two countries agreed verbally and keep their agreement. On the other, we called and "Jishu-kisei" which in free translation means: Mutual (or voluntary) restraint. If you have not already understand, I'm talking about the gentleman's agreement between the Japanese manufacturers 'limit' the horsepower of the car at 280 horses. I'm talking about one of the reasons that I respect and love the Japanese ...
Why does real restraint to not write the older of your shoe an informal agreement to limit as manufacturer so creative, or engineering if you want, and economically. An agreement if violated, will not have any legal consequences. Surely there would be "political" consequences, but it would not be something that could not handle an army PRadon and meanwhile, you you would have a strategic advantage over your competitors. During maintenance of the agreement, however, we saw the best batch of Japanese cars in history! How did it start? Why; When finished and what I mean by the last sentence of the previous paragraph?
There are two theories about the reasons that led to this gentleman's agreement. The prevailing view, says that manufacturers agreed in 1988 to 280 horses to curb the activities of gangs and the number of fatal accidents associated with high power outputs - for the same reason that the maximum speed of the Japanese car was reduced in the mid 70 to 180 mi / h -. An additional advantage of this limitation, it would be the inevitable dismissal of a horsepower war before it even started. This view is consistent with the alarming proportions that had gotten the number of fatal accidents at the time. Also, 280 horses were about or maximum horsepower engine in the late 80s. So it seems logical explanation.
The second theory has to do with motorsport and I admit that I do not particularly convincing. This theory says that manufacturers do not aftoperioristikan 280 horses because of an informal agreement, but because if exceeded 300 horsepower limit their racing in JGTC would be forced to climb category. Some explanations: JGTC, means Japanese Grand Touring Championship and as you know, was the touring car championship in the 90s in Japan. Before that, it was the Japanese Touring Championship. In 1985, participated in the JTC Group A racing, divided into three categories, Division 1, 2 and 3. In 1994, the JTC was JGTC and "major" categories changed name in GT300 and GT500. The theory then says that the manufacturers did not exceed 280 horses not to climb the GT500 class attended by various non-Japanese cars. They insisted that the most "Japanese" and thus more popular, GT300 class where racing fought like stock cars. The point is, that as I said, the GT300 and GT500 classes, introduced in 1994. From the late 80s to 1994, because no manufacturer has not exceeded 280 horses? Also, the GT500 class, is equally popular with the GT300 class - if not the most popular - and practically all Japanese manufacturers, had been the "flagships" of fighting it. Finally, the models in the GT300 class not run like stock cars. They are integrated racing and only their overall body shape reminiscent of the cars in which they are based. This theory has many gaps ... So you understand why I am not convinced.
There are other theories that attempt to explain the phenomenon of a gentlemen's agreement between the Japanese manufacturers. Theories resembling what happened in Japan with the practice of American companies to declare fewer horses than they actually were making their muscle cars to drop the cost of insurance. Or theories that speak of limiting the power of the Japanese car for indirect restrictions on exports. Or even theories that link the main agreement with the "lost decade" of the Japanese economy. Unfortunately, although some of these theories of interest, did not find many information content to do so in a report ...
Anyway, this agreement ran from 1988-1989, until the middle of 2004. In Japan, nobody violated it ... at least not officially. Everyone knew that some sports cars produced more than 280 horses but what mattered is that advertised the horsepower, was 280 horsepower! Anything of the largest executive sedans until Godzilla himself, advertised with 280 horses. Until July 2004, the then President of JAMA - the Federation of Japanese Automobile Manufacturers -, Itaru Koeda, gathered journalists to explain that the agency did not find any correlation between speed and fatal traffic and ended the great - in my opinion - agreement. Manufacturers were now free to advertise horsepower of more than 280 hp. The funny thing is you know more? The model "broke" the first barrier was not a brutal car sports that asfyxiouse from restriction ... was "humble" Honda Legend that in mid-2004, has 300 horses. The Legend!
But I am curious and recollect the times of the gentlemen's agreement ... I would love to be there one day. Certainly not at 280 horses since I understand the progress of technology and the fact that as a kind, always want something more. We could go up to 400 horses. Because, apart from brutal and barren arithmolagneia, what gives us the horsepower war? competition? Do not laugh pompously ... Speed? Anyway at some point after the addition of 400 horse power is meaningless. Not to mention the fact that speed is a destination where you can go on many streets. Retrace seasons horsepower, for one reason or another, were not an end in itself for manufacturers and consider which car sports.
Source - http://www.autoblog.gr/2014/11/22/jishu-kisei-a-k-a-japanese-car-manufacturers-gentleman-agreement/
The term "gentleman's agreement" has its roots in the very distant 1907, and more specifically, the informal agreement between the US and Japan provided for the removal of a law aimed at overtly Japanese immigrants and in return for that, to limit migration of laborers from Japan to the US There was no written agreement ... Just the two countries agreed verbally and keep their agreement. On the other, we called and "Jishu-kisei" which in free translation means: Mutual (or voluntary) restraint. If you have not already understand, I'm talking about the gentleman's agreement between the Japanese manufacturers 'limit' the horsepower of the car at 280 horses. I'm talking about one of the reasons that I respect and love the Japanese ...
Why does real restraint to not write the older of your shoe an informal agreement to limit as manufacturer so creative, or engineering if you want, and economically. An agreement if violated, will not have any legal consequences. Surely there would be "political" consequences, but it would not be something that could not handle an army PRadon and meanwhile, you you would have a strategic advantage over your competitors. During maintenance of the agreement, however, we saw the best batch of Japanese cars in history! How did it start? Why; When finished and what I mean by the last sentence of the previous paragraph?
There are two theories about the reasons that led to this gentleman's agreement. The prevailing view, says that manufacturers agreed in 1988 to 280 horses to curb the activities of gangs and the number of fatal accidents associated with high power outputs - for the same reason that the maximum speed of the Japanese car was reduced in the mid 70 to 180 mi / h -. An additional advantage of this limitation, it would be the inevitable dismissal of a horsepower war before it even started. This view is consistent with the alarming proportions that had gotten the number of fatal accidents at the time. Also, 280 horses were about or maximum horsepower engine in the late 80s. So it seems logical explanation.
The second theory has to do with motorsport and I admit that I do not particularly convincing. This theory says that manufacturers do not aftoperioristikan 280 horses because of an informal agreement, but because if exceeded 300 horsepower limit their racing in JGTC would be forced to climb category. Some explanations: JGTC, means Japanese Grand Touring Championship and as you know, was the touring car championship in the 90s in Japan. Before that, it was the Japanese Touring Championship. In 1985, participated in the JTC Group A racing, divided into three categories, Division 1, 2 and 3. In 1994, the JTC was JGTC and "major" categories changed name in GT300 and GT500. The theory then says that the manufacturers did not exceed 280 horses not to climb the GT500 class attended by various non-Japanese cars. They insisted that the most "Japanese" and thus more popular, GT300 class where racing fought like stock cars. The point is, that as I said, the GT300 and GT500 classes, introduced in 1994. From the late 80s to 1994, because no manufacturer has not exceeded 280 horses? Also, the GT500 class, is equally popular with the GT300 class - if not the most popular - and practically all Japanese manufacturers, had been the "flagships" of fighting it. Finally, the models in the GT300 class not run like stock cars. They are integrated racing and only their overall body shape reminiscent of the cars in which they are based. This theory has many gaps ... So you understand why I am not convinced.
There are other theories that attempt to explain the phenomenon of a gentlemen's agreement between the Japanese manufacturers. Theories resembling what happened in Japan with the practice of American companies to declare fewer horses than they actually were making their muscle cars to drop the cost of insurance. Or theories that speak of limiting the power of the Japanese car for indirect restrictions on exports. Or even theories that link the main agreement with the "lost decade" of the Japanese economy. Unfortunately, although some of these theories of interest, did not find many information content to do so in a report ...
Anyway, this agreement ran from 1988-1989, until the middle of 2004. In Japan, nobody violated it ... at least not officially. Everyone knew that some sports cars produced more than 280 horses but what mattered is that advertised the horsepower, was 280 horsepower! Anything of the largest executive sedans until Godzilla himself, advertised with 280 horses. Until July 2004, the then President of JAMA - the Federation of Japanese Automobile Manufacturers -, Itaru Koeda, gathered journalists to explain that the agency did not find any correlation between speed and fatal traffic and ended the great - in my opinion - agreement. Manufacturers were now free to advertise horsepower of more than 280 hp. The funny thing is you know more? The model "broke" the first barrier was not a brutal car sports that asfyxiouse from restriction ... was "humble" Honda Legend that in mid-2004, has 300 horses. The Legend!
But I am curious and recollect the times of the gentlemen's agreement ... I would love to be there one day. Certainly not at 280 horses since I understand the progress of technology and the fact that as a kind, always want something more. We could go up to 400 horses. Because, apart from brutal and barren arithmolagneia, what gives us the horsepower war? competition? Do not laugh pompously ... Speed? Anyway at some point after the addition of 400 horse power is meaningless. Not to mention the fact that speed is a destination where you can go on many streets. Retrace seasons horsepower, for one reason or another, were not an end in itself for manufacturers and consider which car sports.
Source - http://www.autoblog.gr/2014/11/22/jishu-kisei-a-k-a-japanese-car-manufacturers-gentleman-agreement/