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- From: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Fast Japanese Sports Cars
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 03:18:47 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
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- In a previous article, sam@john-bigboote.ics.uci.edu (Sam Horrocks) says:
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- >In <74435@apple.apple.COM> chmilar@Apple.COM (Michael Chmilar) writes:
- >
- >>3000 VR-4: Ugly, ugly, and ugly. Did I forget to mention: it is U-G-L-Y?
- >> It gets my vote for grossest car of the '90's. Whoever did the
- >> styling on this thing should be killed.
- >
- >You obviously have bad taste. The 300GT brings an exotic style to an
- ~~~~~~need i say it?
-
- >affordable car. Do you think the Viper or Countach are ugly just
- >because they have unusual "styling"? I think Mitsubishi should be
- >given lots of credit for making an interesting car instead of something
- >like the (ho-hum) 300ZX.
- yeah, right.
- >
- >>RX-7: Brutal. Some of the light weight is acheived by flimsy
- >> construction. Check out: Entire interior, door latches, inside
- >> of the wheel wells. This is a $34,000 car? If you drive on
- >> rough roads, make sure your health insurance covers rehabilitating
- >> bruised kidneys. Looks nice and aggressive, but the R1 has
- >> that cheesy, ugly spoiler. With the combo of stiff suspension
- >> and flimsy construction, it may well shake itself to pieces in
- >> a few years. These cars are not selling well, so you can
- >> probably name your price for one.
- >
- >The RX-7 makes an attempt at something interesting, but ends up looking
- >more like a Miata than anything else. Also, it's way too small.
- so..they succeded?
- no way.
- >
- >>300ZX: Refined. Elegant. Best styling job that Japanese designers
- >> have ever done. Also, goes like stink, and handles well. Best
- >> interior too. Control placement is nearly perfect, and quality
- >> is high.
- >
- >This has to be the dullest looking sports car of the 90's. Nissan
- >didn't have to spend much time thinking about the styling for this one --
- >there's nothing interesting in it. The looks of this car are nothing
- >new, nothing exotic, just the Same Old Thing. I guess that makes some
- >people happy, but I'd rather have car makers come up with more
- >interesting designs rather than try to keep from offending people with
- >pedestrian tastes.
-
- this man OBVIOUSLY has a brain tumor, and should be operated on immediately.
- now..the slamming out of the way, let me say...well..there is nothing to say.
- i feel pity for you. Anyone who is this far off base deserves my pity. NOT
- HARDLY!! go buy your 300GT(sic on purpose!) and leave the damn 300ZX to ME!
- so i can see the look on your face when i pass you on the road at speed(damn
- rev limiters..anyone programmed around those yet?) and see you with a
- steaming hunk of mismatched plastic aerocrap in meltdown cuz you tried to
- drive it like they market it!
- DREW
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