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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Re: American v. Foreign Cars
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Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 00:29:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 19 00:29:08 1984
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> It is tough to make your point, albeit a good one, when you pick an
> AMERICAN car (the Rabbit, built in PA which is still part of the USA)
> as your example of a European car! [BRIAN GORDON]

True.  But at least Rabbits were DESIGNED by qualified European car
manufacturers instead of the apparent incompetents in Detroit (?) who wouldn't
know style, functionality, safety, or quality if it crashed into them at 5 MPH.

I've got an '83 Rabbit.  It performs better than any car I've ever driven
(that list includes a variety of shoddy American so-called automobiles and
a Nissan Sentra, which doesn't really count as a car).  Of course, because
it was made on an American assembly line, there HAS to be something wrong
with it:  the lightswitch inside the driver's door doesn't activate the
light or the buzzer due to a loose connection, despite three attempts to
fix it.  (I said while driving my Fairmont, which doesn't qualify as a
machine let alone as an automobile, that I would not ever again own an
American made car.  Next time, I'll mean it.  But this Rabbit is light
years above the Fairmont.)
-- 
Now I've lost my train of thought. I'll have to catch the bus of thought.
			Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr