Comments MIG welded in below...
At 11:04 AM 6/30/97 -0700, EMILY COWEN wrote:
>Hi Q!!
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>On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Jay Quinn wrote:
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>> Anybody got unbiased printed reports?
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>Try to get your hands on the trade mag "Automotive Industries",
>published monthly by Chilton co. There's no advertising fluff to deal
>with. They write about all different aspects of the current automotive
>community; from all parts of the world.
Good show ole chap. Thanks.
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>The write-up on Chrysler's new car engineering was impressive. Lot's of
>interesting things coming for us to see/use. As a consumer, I love the
>GLOBAL competition driving the automotive design, but wonder where the
>marketing guys have their heads shoved.
I've heard both good and bad but thats only biased talk.
I'm hoping to hear good things about the new car model.
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>Remember when GM's Duntove wouldn't put RADIALS on any 'vettes because
>"the average North American driver couldn't handle the different
>response characteristics of the radial"? GM has done the same thing
>today with the latest import for Cadillac: they DETUNED the suspension
>to "fit" the NA market when they brought the Caterra over from Europe
>
Makes one wanto to sry. This is why most Euro & Jap cars seem to
have the pulse on the American taste in driving machines.
Sometimes, we may have it right, then screw it up so it will drive like
a familiar crappy feel?!
The Caterra is made by Opel. I love Opel. only becuase I owned a 72 Opel
GT (Babe Magnet, when your 16)
>Anyways, remember the credo: NEVER, but NEVER buy the first generation
>of ANYTHING. ALWAYS wait for at least the second generation design, or
Yeah, like a Bugeye opposed to a Box Sprite? |:)
>even the third. We always used to say that GM did it's final product
>R&D in the marketplace!! Our little 235 Buick v-8 was a warrantee
Yes, I say the same thing about Microsoft.
>nightmare until GM sold it to Rover, and THEY redesigned the cooling
>system to make it into a reliable engine...
I remember doing a bunch of Block swaps with the GM Diesel in the early
80's. I think the owners finally won out under the new lemon law.
Boy, was that bad. I'm sure there are other major lemons but I can't
remember any as bad as the GM diesel.
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>TTUL8r, Kirk Cowen (who's nervous about the new "fluidless brakes"
> [AI Sept '96, AI March '97] even if Delphi, ITT,
> and Bosch are working on it)
Tell me more of this fluidless brakes. Can it be stopped? |;)-
Q
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