RE: [T3] Boy am I about to make enemies!

[James MacNaughton <JMac@uglyduckling.com>]

Okay, I'm sorry, I've had a *really* bad couple of weeks.

When I think of American cars, I'm not thinking of 1992 Pontiac Sunbirds,
I'm thinking 1965 Catalina 2+2's.  And euro I meant literally a 65 2CV.  A
98 Passat makes me all woogly inside, and a 98 Taurus makes a different part
of me woogly.

I'm very sorry.  I'm pissey because Deathrich is currently flatlining, and
I'm 1000 miles away, unable to help!

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> Sent: 	Thursday, November 19, 1998 3:04 PM
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> Subject: 	RE: [T3] Boy am I about to make enemies! 
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> My point isnt one of judgement - its of TACTILITY. Personal experience: on
> Average, and this means I'm ruling out your GTOs and many American cars
> which I find Kick-ass,
> driving an American car is like being in a pod. At its worst (here
> specifically Im thinking of the Ford Taurus) its literally like driving a
> boat. Maybe the tactile grab is significantly different because the
> driving
> experience is completely different. The European economy cars I've driven
> in Europe are far more responsive than any American economy car I've
> driven, and they make me far less inclined to fall asleep at the wheel. I
> have design problems up to my eyes with alot of the recent US stuff I've
> rented over the past few years.
> As for performance cars, hell if I know.  But  its the little bits of
> handheld brilliance and the perhaps lack of suspension in European cars
> I'm
> talking about most of all.
> But only in America do you get something like the development of cruise
> control and the cup-holder. (And if cruise control wasnt made in America
> I'll take it all back and eat my broken odometer.)
> So its an internal and somewhat cultural attitude born of different needs.
> Thats all. As for general stability and rollover, When I said youre on the
> road, I wasnt implying you'd stay there for a long time. ;]
> Mike
> 
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