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- From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Ford Probe - invoice prices wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.022021.8389@informix.com>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 02:20:21 GMT
- References: <2B09CC15.21923@news.service.uci.edu> <1992Nov18.061747.29528@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Helen Keller Bondurant's Performance Driving School for the Blind
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- In article <1992Nov18.061747.29528@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
- >>My girlfriend is planning to buy a car soon and is looking
- >>at the Probe along with a couple of other cars (namely the Saturn
- >>SC2, Dodge Shadow convertible, and Chrysler LeBaron convertible--any
- >>comments?), but she would like to get a better idea of what to expect
- >>to pay.
- >
- >Forget Dodge or Chrysler. They are about as reliable as Hyundais.
- >Forget the Probe. It's a repackaged Mazda; the Mazda has a better
- >warranty.
-
- "It's a repackaged Mazda" ??? You must be joking. The only commonality
- between the MX-6 and the Probe are the motors/trannys, and the fact that
- they come out of the same plant. The suspensions, bodies, interiors,
- etc. are all different. You'll pay ~3K more for a MX-6 LS than a similarly
- equipped Probe GT; you can buy lots of warranty for a small chunk of that.
-
- Witness: the goofy (and ugly, IMHO) MX-6 interior, the cheap 2.5 MPH bumper
- system, ding-magnets doors, etc.
-
- >Buy the original Mazda, or get a Saturn SC2.
-
- My two finalists were the Probe GT and the Saturn SC/SC2.
-
-
- --
- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland
-
- "Out on the highway doing 98... radio's blastin', and he's tempting fate
- He swears he saw an angel in a black Corvette
- She was blowing him kisses through her cigarette [Was (Not Was)]
- Boy's gone crazy; it's not just a phase, he's one step over the line..."
-