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- From: fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca (Fengxi Zhou)
- Subject: Mazda scraps Amati
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.211736.19763@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:17:36 GMT
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- Due partly to the lacklustre US auto market, Mazda has abandoned its plan to
- fill the market with yet another Japanese Luxuary car line, reported Autocar &
- Motor. It will continue its Xedos line in Europe, though. What a pity. Mazda
- has been putting interesting cars into the market. It would have been an
- interesting scene to see how they pit against each other.
-
- Think I read this some time ago: the chief stylist in Mazda wanted to break the
- "Japanese mould" and make the cars sexy, literally. So he ordered his staff to
- go to the local bars with one sole mission: watch the girls' hips. THe reason?
- When driving, you get a better look at a car just passing by than a car about
- to brush through. Any one can confirm this? They certainly got some real nice
- looking rear quaters. IMHO, 929 looks better from the rear (better looking
- than the current Jaguar XJ-6?)
-