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- From: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: 1993 Probe -- two week initial impressions (long-ish)
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 18:21:20 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov15.081412.10539@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1992Nov12.215822.1711@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Reply-To: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
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- In a previous article, ellisk@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Michael K. Ellis) says:
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- >dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee) writes:
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- >IMHO, the Probe looks like, well, a Probe. On steroids. :) I like the
- >look of my GT. It's quite clean, even with the so-called 'angry front'
- >treatment of the GT. The whole car sticks together quite well as a
- >single shape, instead of having a front, middle, and rear stuck onto one
- >another without real regard for the whole.
-
- just curious if anyone else has noticed this, or maybe i'm way off..but..
- while thumbing through one of my copies of European Car, i noticed this one
- add...it was for a BMW soup up shop...i can't think of the name of the company
- right now..but they had a BMW 850i sitting there, with their custom wheels,
- and their aeroFX(i think)..but i was struck by the amazing similarity of the
- way this car looked in the add to the new probes...of course, i doubt the
- similarity would be so close in a real life comparison, but that picture
- (mostly cuz o' the wheels, i think) looked almost EXACTLY like a new GT...
-
- >Ordered the car on August 21st. Took delivery November 3rd. This is, to
- >me, UNACCEPTABLE. Nor did, for instance, my dealer offer me a loaner to
- >drive once the 'four to six weeks' they told me when I ordered passed.
-
- hmm..ford doesn't like to offer loaner cars when they work on your car
- either, even in cases where it will take a couple of weeks, and it is
- because they screwed up....(or at least the shop my mother had her
- ford serviced at didn't like to..for that day, they would take her
- somewhere, but they didn't offer a loaner car til she bitched up a storm,
- and then she didn't feel it was worth it..they gave her a LTD...she'd have
- paid less to fly than she did for gas in that hunk!..and it was gutless
- besides!..ford can't get it all right)
-
- >didn't want anyway, but I paid for it, so I want it to work). Net cost
- >to me was probably $10 saved on gas on the Tempo, which gets better
- >mileage and takes regular unleaded. Oh and I also took it to an NFL
-
- you got lucky on this one!
-
- >shifter loosened up. Only remaining complaint, other than the keyless,
- >is that the shifter is *still* occasionally reluctant to go into first
- >or reverse, which is embarassing and noisy, not to mention bad for the
-
- reverse is a ford thing...we've owned (in my collective family) 3 brand
- news since 88, one a stang, one truck, and one escort, and none of them
- ever like going into reverse..sometimes they do..but not always..you
- have to let out the clutch..and then try again..but try not to grind it..
- as for the first gear..they tend not to like to go unless the car is
- stopped..it's almost kind of a safety thing there..to keep newbie
- stick drivers from accidentally hitting first instead of 3rd or 5th..
-
- glad you like the car...almost makes me hope that i can afford one when
- they soup up that little v6 to make it so that it will actually outrun
- the old turbo model four..they got the body better, and a better motor,
- the just need to do a little more tuning..though i'm sure the v6 has a
- much more pleasant power curve, the all out performance is not yet up
- to par with it's improved looks, IMHO.
- good luck in the future with it and ford!
- DREW
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