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- From: kevinh@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch (kevinh)
- Subject: Re: Worst Car Award
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.074604.18923@hasler.ascom.ch>
- Originator: kevinh@nath
- Sender: news@hasler.ascom.ch
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- Organization: Ascom Hasler AG
- References: <1993Jan24.141549.16369@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> <8463@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> <lmbgg0INNou5@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 07:46:04 GMT
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- In article <lmbgg0INNou5@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:
- |> c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
- |> >
- |> >Some car magazine I checked during lunch actually discussed the ugliest
- |> >car ever made, and I think the winner (by leaps & bounds) was a
- |> >French car, I think a Renault 6. Or, any Citroen (i.e. 2CV to CX)
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- |> French cars have a totally different aesthetic, I don't think it's fair
- |> to compare them if you don't speak fluent French and enjoy dry red wine.
- |> Also, the 2CV is a Renault, not a Citroen.
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- Perhaps, I don't speak french ( I quite like the wine though :-) but I
- think CX's are fantastic, especially the CX 25 Gti Turbo 2. The exterior
- is perfect, 4 doors, one of the best designed dasboards ever, hydraulic
- suspension etc. etc. The estate is still quite a popular car due to it's
- huge passenger capacity. You have to admit the Dyane is ugly though!
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- |> Why has nobody mentioned what, to me, seem like the quintessential ugly
- |> cars: the AMC Matador, the AMC Gremlin, and the AMC Pacer?
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- Agreed - perhaps it goes without saying and we're discussing second place :-).
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- |> The only cars that come close
- |> to Matador/Gremlin ugliness are the Buick Roadmaster/Chevy Caprice series.
- |> Pound for pound they may be a bargain, but people buy meat-- not cars--
- |> by the pound. I was really surprised when I actually sat down in a Buick
- |> Roadmaster. The back seat is cramped and lots of cargo space has been
- |> wasted with stupid side compartments. Just amazing!
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- At the Geneva show last year there were quite a few American manufacturers
- present, with quite a few cars on display, I was amazed just how little
- interior space they had for their size, often less than a class (or more)
- smaller european/japanese car.
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- kevinh@hasler.ascom.ch
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