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- From: mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Real Life?!?! HA!!)
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- Subject: Re: Worst Car Award
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:56:28 GMT
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- It's ironic that, while one thread is arguing whether the Audi 5000 or Ford
- Taurus was the first popular car with aerodynamic styling, another thread is
- debating the aesthetics of Citroens.
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- As some of us I'm sure know, Citroen has been in the business of making
- aerodynamic cars for longer than most of us have been alive. Whether or not
- Citroen was influential to the Audi 5000 or the (yecch) Taurus is another
- matter; however, neither the Taurus nor the 5000 broke any new ground aero-
- dynamically, except in sales.
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- $0.02
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- Michael T. Chaffee | mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu | ______
- "It has been said - mostly by illiterates and conserv-| \ / HATE
- atives - that the belief in God is at the base of the | \ / is not a
- American system, and that the United States is a prod-| \/ FAMILY VALUE
- uct of Christian piety." - Leonard Peikoff |
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