> > From: Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/02/10 Sat PM 03:31:05 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: PESO: Made in England > > 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).
Whatever their other parameters, French cars (at least from the big three) are certainly visually distinctive. ----------------------------------------- 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
