1989 Quasar 4-Head VCR need some info

[vortalexfan]

Greetings everyone, yesterday afternoon I went to the local Goodwill store to drop off some donations and I went inside to look around and I found sitting on the shelf in the electronics section a 1989 vintage Quasar 4-Head monoraul VCR that has a 188 Channel Quartz tuned Cable Compatible tuner and has on-screen programming and display and does work really well yet (it plays tapes as it should.)

Now for the interesting part, on the back of the VCR it says that the VCR was assembled in the USA with Japanese and US components, and it also doesn't mention anything about Quasar being a subsidiary of Matsushita Electric Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) like later Quasar branded stuff did, and I know the Quasar brand name came from Motorola here in the US originally.

My question is, did Panasonic have some of their Quasar branded products made by Motorola here in the US for a short while after Panasonic's purchase of the Quasar name from Motorola in order to keep the name recognition going with the US Consumers who were familiar with the Quasar name when it was under the Motorola name plate?

If so how common is it to find a Quasar VCR that was made by Motorola here in the US?

[Electronic M]

Moto sold their entire consumer electronics division to Matsushita in the mid 70s...It wasn't 'made by Motorola' it was assembled in the US by an assembly plant owned and operated by Matsushita's north American division to skirt import terifs on foreign built electronics. There's still companies that assemble flat screen TVs in the US for the same reason.... They're all Asian parts and no different from a set made off shore only they traded paying terrifs for paying labor on domestic assembly of it.

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Moto sold their entire consumer electronics division to Matsushita in the mid 70s...It wasn't 'made by Motorola' it was assembled in the US by an assembly plant owned and operated by Matsushita's north American division to skirt import terifs on foreign built electronics. There's still companies that assemble flat screen TVs in the US for the same reason.... They're all Asian parts and no different from a set made off shore only they traded paying terrifs for paying labor on domestic assembly of it.

OK, I wasn't sure.
I was asking because that was the first time I had seen that message on any 1970s or 1980s vintage Panasonic made electronics unit of any type here in the US (and I have had quite a few Panasonic made electronics from that time period pass through my hands over the years.)