Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: American v. Foreign Cars Message-ID: <202@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 00:29:08 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.202 Posted: Fri Oct 19 00:29:08 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 11:02:49 EDT References: <199@umcp-cs.UUCP>, <542@sjuvax.UUCP>, <507@watdcsu.UUCP> <415@cae780.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 21 > 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