It's a quite Sunday evening and I have a feeling this is a bit off topic. I've never owned a Soobie but having had big Toys as family cars for 30 years or so now, when something does eventually wear out/break on them you usually brace yourself at the spares counter - they are fairly boring to drive as such but as very comfortable people movers you have to look at very exy Euros to find better value. Nissan Aus never brought in what you'd call a reasonably built family car, C series were a joke as they were marginally better than a P38, and didn't bring Infiniti in which is a pity as I would have thought it would sell well if they toughened up the suspension a bit like Toy does for Aussie roads, I guess Nissan thought they couldn't compete with Falcodores.
regards Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Sent: Sunday, 4 August 2002 5:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: first car I think the big problem with Subarus is that the cars are not sold with a complimentary crying rag for when you go to buy spare parts. A mate has an RS, his method for guessing what he will get charged for a part is to think of a reasonable price and double it. Sunday, August 04, 2002, 12:36:57 PM, you wrote: TR> Adam, TR> I agree with a passion - I would extend your comment to include the whole driveline and suspension, the latter up to a point. It did take Nissan a while to come up to the standards set by other TR> Japanese manufacturers body and trim wise, IMHO Toy and Mazda set very high standards from the early 70's but at a price to the consumer and the current day standard leader in the body field is TR> Subaru but all of the others are very close behind - you don't get many badly built Japanese cars these days. TR> regards TR> Terry --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
