mike wilson wrote: >> 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...
The French have made 1 interesting road car in the last 20 years. The Clio V6 24V. And then they screwed it up. And it's just insane anyways (Take a wee little hatchback and convert it to a rear drive/mid engine driveline with almost 3x the horsepower. Watch while people spin the twitchy bitch all the time). -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
