Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hcrvx1.UUCP Path: utzoo!hcrvax!hcrvx1!hugh From: hugh@hcrvx1.UUCP (Hugh Redelmeier) Newsgroups: net.auto,net.consumers Subject: Re: cars in Europe Message-ID: <1016@hcrvx1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 09:57:55 EST Article-I.D.: hcrvx1.1016 Posted: Tue Dec 4 09:57:55 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Dec-84 05:25:21 EST References: <133@ur-cvsvax.UUCP> <151@gcc-opus.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto Lines: 13 >... when I was in Germany one of the more popular cars is [sic] something >I call the Citroen Bug. Despite its reputation as a sport car company, their >low end entry looked like a VW bug with all the seams on the outside. The car >wasn't much to look at, and it performed like shit, but it was CHEAP! I think the the car you refer to is (or was) called the "Dianne" (sp?). Its traditional nickname is "Deux Chevaux" (two horses, its reputed power?). >...Bermuda... Also note that these were all the British 'wrong-side' cars >too! If the Japanese are willing to go to the effort to make special cars for >England, they would certainly be willing to do it for the US! Last time I was in Japan (20 years ago), they drove on the "wrong side" too.