I'm certainly not awaiting Peugeot's re-entry. I used to have a 1982 505S Turbodiesel (which I bought new). It was the most unreliable car I've ever had. It was put out of its misery when a somewhat inattentive lady rear-ended me and totaled it as I was waiting at a red light. I bought a used Renault (should have known better) from Avis Used Car Sales. It was my second most unreliable car. (A Fiat 124 Sport Coup�, several years earlier, tied for second place with the Renault.)
My 1989 Acura Legend V6L (also bought new, to replace the Renault, and still looking new) is, on the other hand, the most reliable car I've ever had (as it approaches 200 Mm). One thing they have/had in common, of course -- all metric to the core (other than the odometer and the primary scale on the speedometer). SI and quality don't necessarily go hand in hand. Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of Brian White >Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 15:14 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Cc: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:24903] Re: Fw: hope all is well.... read this one to the >end.....lol > > >John, sometimes I think you read waaaaay too much into things. > >Course..there's talk on the Peugeot list about anti-French sentiment >jepordizing Peugeot's rumored re-entry into the US market come 2004- >2005. > >Myself, I'm waiting patiently for metrication and a 206 GTi. <grin> > >Brian >89 Peugeot 405 Mi16 > >And why didn't anyone answer my 30 year anniversary Metric Conversion >Act email? > > > >At Wednesday, 19 February 2003, "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2003-02-19 >> >>If this anti-French attitude spreads to far, it is really >>going to harm any chance, what little there is, of the US making >any progress >>towards metrication. Despite the fact that SI is an international >system, >>to most Americans it is either just a French or European system. >> >>John >> >> >>Sent: Wednesday, 2003-02-19 08:25 >>Subject: Fw: hope all is well.... read this one to the >>end.....lol >> >> >> >> >Friends and Colleagues:> > > >> > >>> > Letter below is GREAT.> > > >> > > > >>Be sure to read ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM!!> > > >> > >>> > Dear Dad:> > > > A funny thing happened to me >>yesterday at Camp> > > > Bondsteel (Bosnia): A French> >>> > > army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me> > >>> > he thought we> > > > (Americans) were a bunch of >>cowboys and were going> > > > to provoke a war in> > >>> > Iraq. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't> > > >>> be able to count on the> > > > support of France. I told >>him that it didn't> > > > surprise me. Since we had> > >>> > come to France's rescue in World War I, World War> > > >>> II, Vietnam, and the Cold> > > > War, their ingratitude and >>jealousy was due to> > > > surface [again] at some> > >>> > point in the near future anyway. I also told him> > > >>> that is why France is a> > > > third-rate military power >>with a socialist economy> > > > and a bunch of pansies> >>> > > for soldiers. I additionally told him that America,> > >>> > being a nation of> > > > deeds and action, not words, >>would do whatev er it> > > > had to do, and France's> >>> > > support, if it ever came, was only for show anyway.> > >>> > Just like in ALL NATO> > > > exercises, the US would >>shoulder 85% of the burden,> > > > and provide 85% of >>the> > > > support, as evidenced by the fact that this >>French> > > > officer was shopping in> > > > the >>American PX, and not the other way around. He> > > > began to >>get belligerent> > > > at that point, and I told him if he would >>like to, I> > > > would meet him outside> > > > >>in front of the Burger King and whip his ass in> > > > front of >>the entire> > > > Multinational Brigade East, thus demonstrating >>that> > > > even the smallest> > > > American >>had more fight in him than the average> > > > Frenchman. He >>called me a> > > > barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff. >>With> > > > friends like these, who> > > > needs >>enemies?> > > > Dad, tell Mom I love her,> > > >>>> > > > Your loving daughter,> > > > Mary >>Beth Johnson> > > > LtCol., USMC >> >> > > > > >
