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- From: mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Real Life?!?! HA!!)
- Subject: Re: Worst Car Award
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:08:53 GMT
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- tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:
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- >c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
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- >>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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- BZZZZZZZZZZZT! Thank you for playing! The correct answer, in fact, WAS
- Citroen! And if you ask me, the 2CV (Pronounced see-twoy-ain deuh sheuh-veau)
- is pretty damn cute in its own nasty little way.
-
- $0.02
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