Japan also surrendered to the US, albeit a few months earlier and with slightly less loss of life. The Germans surrendered to US/British forces mainly because the alternative was Stalin who pretty much shipped every German he could to Siberia.
That does not sound at all like what happened in the TL I'm from.
danielb1 said:the only German marque to survive at all was Opel, given how 1 in 4 Germans died in the war that isn't surprising
That stinks - a lot of the German brands have survived, and even some new competitors - Messerschmidt, for example, who unfortunately has a bad reputation of making subpar cars. Do you guys have the Trabi? If so, then that is Messerschmidt's reputation in the TL I'm from.
danielb1 said:Porsche doesn't count, its Austrian not German. Not too many big European brands around, really; there's Fiat-Lancia-Alfa Romeo-SEAT, Citroen-Peugeot, AvtoVAZ-ZIL, Zastava, Moskvich, and Saab-Scania. Not counting various outside-owned groups (Triumph, Land Rover, and Sunbeam-Talbot by Chrysler; Jaguar, Ghia, Ford of Britain, and Ford of Germany by Ford; Renault by American Motors; DAF by Toyota; Rolls-Royce by Nissan-Prince; Opel, Vauxhall, and Daimler by General Motors).
Wow, so totally not like OTL - well, other than Sunbeam-Talbot owned by Chrysler, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Zastava, AZLK (aka Moskvitch), Jaguar, Ford of Britain, and Ford-Europe (aka Ford Germany) owned by Ford; and Opel and Vauxhall owned by GM. Also in TTL, the AMC-Renault relationship is reversed - and Nissan-Prince is also owned by Renault. In addition, AvtoVAZ is owned by GM. Ghia is just another design studio, and Land Rover is also owned by Ford, after some big deal with the Austin-Rover Group - forget most of the details, but it was big news.
danielb1 said:Neil Armstrong was Mission Commander on Artemis VII, one of the later moon missions. Grissom launched on Artemis IV. The Mars mission was Ares I, just 3 years ago.
Again, so not like OTL. We're still figuring out how to get to Mars.
danielb1 said:Never heard of a "Rene Levendi", I never really watch French-language programming though.
Ah, well the romans are also avaliable in English as well, and as a result American TV networks have picked them up like crazy (and dropped their own soap operas in the process), because they are pretty popular. M. Levendi works in both languages (English and French), and a lot of American girls think he's a hottie. Indeed, Canadian-made romans are starting to become more popular than Latin American telenovelas.
danielb1 said:Is that US$ or Canadian$ - in my TL, a Canadian dollar is about 80 cents US, which would make that meal sound real cheap. For other info, a British Pound is about $1.25, Japanese yen about 10 cents, Russian ruble is about 17 cents, French franc about 5 cents, Swiss franc about 25 cents.
Canadian dollars - however, unlike a lot of other currencies, the Canadian dollar is still backed by gold (though now also backed by silver and platinum as well), and gold is trading pretty well at the moment (at pretty high prices). That, combined with our near-zero inflation, has pretty much made the Canadian dollar second only to the British pound sterling as being among the strongest currencies in the world.
danielb1 said:Gas here became unleaded during the 1970s environmental fads - they switched over to a 90% gas/10% ethanol mix which is still common although soon hydrogen will replace it for most cars.
Ah, so you didn't have to go through what happened during the early years of the leaded fuel ban in Canada, starting at around the beginning of WW2 (the original reason: lead was needed for the war effort), then allowing it to remain all the way to the present day, including a mandate sometime around the early 1950s that all cars sold in Canada (then) must use either unleaded petrol or diesel. But hey, at least our air is a bit more cleaner than in the US in the TL I'm from.
danielb1 said:The Prime Minister of Canada's a slightly off Canadian Alliance leader named Leonard Peikoff, he cut off federal funds to the national health service and is a big-time pennywatcher.
O god, Socred's been forming Governments?
(OOC: again, posting from the main TL, from my worldview)