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- From: rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade)
- Subject: Re: Plymouth or Oldsmobile?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.155327.27401@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:53:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.135531.14519@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.214222.14916@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade) writes:
- >>yea, plymouth name sucks. no one wants to own a *plymouth*. same with
- >>OLDsmobile. an OLD-car...for OLD-goats. i think xlyer should dump the
- >>plymouth name. eagle is cool name and mostly cool products(not the premier though).
- >
- >Gee Robert,
- >
- >I guess you've never heard of the Olds Aerotech in the Late 80's... World
- >Speed record for closed circuit, specially modified quad 4 engine (600 to
- >800 hp), super-aero, sustained speed on a circle of around 270-280 mph...
- >
- >Took a 20 year standing Mercedes Benz record down. And that was an Olds
- >project...
- >
- >Anyhow.
- >
- >Spiros
- >--
- actually i have. that was a cool special effort and speaks well of the quad4.
- my point is they don't apply those efforts the cars they make that one can
- buy. they just make a bunch of fake-plastic-chrome/fake-plastic-wood
- trim-mobiles that are pretty uninspiring. maybe the 94 aurora will break that
- trend...i'll have to see the interior to know for sure.
-