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Re: [Mgs] Trouble with Chinese fish?

To: atweditor@aol.com
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Trouble with Chinese fish?
From: Paul Root <ptrmgb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:31:46 -0500
Hey, I'm not the only one! Very bland.

atweditor@aol.com wrote:
>  This is seriously bad news.? First Triumph may come back, then we hear that 
>Chinese flounders are getting in the way of the MGTF.? Unless, of course, it 
>was "foundering" that was going on.....
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> Anyone think that Triumph model looks just like the Pontiac Solstice from the 
>rear, and a little like the new Thunderbird from the front?
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> Jay Donoghue
> 72B-GT
> 66 Mustang
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> From: Aeseeyou@aol.com
> To: mgs@autox.team.net
> Sent: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 2:06 pm
> Subject: [Mgs] Oh No, Not Again! The Triumph might upstage MG's return!
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> In an almost Deja Vu rerun of what happened when  the TR4 upstaged the MGB 
> and British-Leyland released the TR7 (TR8) before a new  MG could replace the 
> tired MGB (A "Bonehead" move which virtually killed off any  hope that B-L 
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> of taking back the lucrative import car market here in  the States, 
>especially 
> the sports cars that had dominated the market since right  after WW2. 
> The TR7's and TR8's were a horrible flops! The public didn't like  the "wedge 
> look" and never accepted them. They sounded a death  knoll to the proud 
> British car empire that had been on  top for so many years! 
> But now Triumph seems ready to return once  again. And now it appears 
> possible that it might even upstage the  "floundering" Chinese built Nanjing 
> MGTF. 
> Why? Because the Triumph will be  built and marketed by the Mega-wealthy PR 
> powerhouse, BMW...Remember the  impressive way that BMW "sold" the new Mini 
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> nostalgic and extremely loyal  followers of the "old" Mini?  BMW never 
> skipped a beat. The same is  possible if BMW does a just fraction of the PR 
>work 
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> the new Triumph that it  did before they released the "new" Mini. And now you 
> see the "new" Minis  everywhere!
> Beside which, the new Triumph really looks great! In fact it  looks like a 
> 21st Century TR4 ...the little roadsters pedigree is undeniable! To  read 
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> http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/210892/triumph.html     
> Hey, I'd buy one! And if they're anywhere near as dependable as the BMW Mini  
> the new Triumph should be a real threat to the Mazda MX5 or the Miata as the 
> MX5  is known here in the Colonies. And if they use the  BMW V-8 engine to  
> power them.....Wow! 
> Albert Escalante CCBCC-West Coast  
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