> > From: Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/02/09 Fri PM 07:20:49 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO: Made in England > > John Francis wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:17:32PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> -------------- Original message ---------------------- > >> From: mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> As an American, I'm not sure you have any say whatsoever regarding taste > >>> and > >>> automobile design. > >>> > >> But we still make them. You Brits apparently can't. > >> Paul > > > > I don't know - they still seem to do a pretty good job of designing > > and building cars people actually *want* to buy, even if it needs > > foreign money to do it. At times it seems as though the major US > > contribution is avoiding shipping costs by building foreign models > > in US plants. > > > > Admittedly there's always the Corvette - even the current monster > > is a darn good car (albeit *enormous*; when I got behind the wheel > > of one when car-shopping a year ago I couldn't believe how wide > > the thing was). But for a far smaller market the Brits can offer > > the MINI, several Loti, Aston Martin, and even Bentley/Rolls Royce. > > > > > > The Mini is a BMW, the Aston Martin DB9 is a Jag, the Jag X-series is a > rebadged Mondeo. > > Bentley/Rolls are a class unto themselves. > > Car design these days seems to mostly be german, japanese or aussie. > Everybody else mostly seems to just restyle the stuff coming out of > associated german, japanese or aussie design houses.
The French will be very unhappy to hear you say that. Being current F1 and WRC champions and all... ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
