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- From: rjwade@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J. Wade)
- Subject: Re: Worst Car Award
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.163920.8377@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <frank.727928633@kynok.ucs.ubc.ca> <C1Fx3B.Kxq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <ALAVIGNE.93Jan26093512@bmerh930.bnr.ca>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:39:20 GMT
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- In article <ALAVIGNE.93Jan26093512@bmerh930.bnr.ca> alavigne@bmerh930.bnr.ca (Andrew Lavigne) writes:
- >
- >> Oh, forgot to add another $.02 to the earlier reply:
- >>
- >> My nominee: EVERY Honda built to sell in the US since 1989. Entirely
- >> too slow... And no power. I hate it, but I'll take my dad's '88 Camry
- >> I-4 anyday when given a choice with an Accord. I'll take a Saturn SL2
- >> or Sentra SE-R over ANY Civic, including the Del Sol, which makes the
- >> Miata look positively fast. And, last but not least, a Probe or MX-6
- >> over any Prelude. [ plus more stuff ...]
- >
- >If you mean speed wise, I believe the Prelude VTEC is faster than the Probe
- >or MX-6. Styling wise, well, I guess the rear end and the dash are ugly -
- >redesign them, though, and I'd take one.
- >
-
- redesign and lower the price to that of the probe gt. i think hondas are
- falling out of favor as the *in* car and that helped sell a lot of them...
- they are in trouble now..3 houses on my street now have new camrys parked in
- the drive..and 2 of them had older accords traded in on them!
-