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- From: mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Real Life?!?! HA!!)
- Subject: Re: Worst Car Award
- References: <1993Jan24.141549.16369@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> <krothman.727889636@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <1993Jan25.170828.3532@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:57:21 GMT
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- zenith89@bcarh1eb.bnr.ca (Chris VanFleet) writes:
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- >In article <krothman.727889636@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> krothman@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ken Rothman) writes:
- >>zorro@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (John Grabowski) writes:
- >>>I'd like to conduct an informal poll here: what do the gentle readers of this
- >>>group think is the WORST car being made today??? (And why?) It must be a
- >>>car still being manufactured, so a 1975 Dodge Dart doesn't count. :-)
- >>
- >>My least favorite car these days has got to be the Chevy Caprice
- >>(and the Buick Roadmaster and the Cadillac Fleetwood)
- >>The design is just completely IRRESPONSIBLE.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Funny, these are my favourites. To each his own.... but, how can
- >you call these cars IRRESPONSIBLE (in capital letters?!)???? Is
- >this some kind of dig at their fuel consumption?
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- I think what he meant was that the car is such a visual assault (You are in a
- very very very very very small minority in liking the Caprice) that it con-
- stitutes irresponsibility to the customers, or perhaps to the GM tradition
- of selling cars that people would WANT to buy.....
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