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From: jim beam on 13 Feb 2010 09:56 On 02/12/2010 10:00 PM, clare(a)snyder.on.ca wrote: > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:37:14 -0500, Hachiroku ????<Trueno(a)e86.GTS> > wrote: > >> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:54:44 -0500, clare wrote: >> >>>> And the emissions and safety requirements are different, too. >>>> >>>> Jeff >>> Not to forget, how many countries would you need to drive through to >>> cover the distance from NYC to Detroit - much less from Tampa to Seattle >>> or Bangor Maine to SanDiego?????? In Britain it's pretty hard to drive 100 >>> miles in a straight line. In most of Continental Europe it is the same. >> >> >> But I sure would love to drive the road Princess Grace got killed on >> driving down into Monaco... >> > Some beautifull curvy roads where the european style cars come into > their own. indeed. > American iron makes poor rallye cars too. When I was ralllying in my > (relative) youth we had a 1972 Renault R12.. awesome. but that was one ugly looking car. when i was in europe, i remember seeing some dude with a renault 3.0 v6 in an r12. bet it was fun to drive! > On the rough roads of central Africa the American cars would not have > stood up well either. Killed my '67 Peugeot too. The '49 VW stood up > pretty well, considering!!! i always thought these were fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:220505_simca.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alpine_A110_1600_-_001.jpg -- nomina rutrum rutrum
From: clare on 13 Feb 2010 11:34 On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:56:14 -0800, jim beam <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: >On 02/12/2010 10:00 PM, clare(a)snyder.on.ca wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:37:14 -0500, Hachiroku ????<Trueno(a)e86.GTS> >> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:54:44 -0500, clare wrote: >>> >>>>> And the emissions and safety requirements are different, too. >>>>> >>>>> Jeff >>>> Not to forget, how many countries would you need to drive through to >>>> cover the distance from NYC to Detroit - much less from Tampa to Seattle >>>> or Bangor Maine to SanDiego?????? In Britain it's pretty hard to drive 100 >>>> miles in a straight line. In most of Continental Europe it is the same. >>> >>> >>> But I sure would love to drive the road Princess Grace got killed on >>> driving down into Monaco... >>> >> Some beautifull curvy roads where the european style cars come into >> their own. > >indeed. > > >> American iron makes poor rallye cars too. When I was ralllying in my >> (relative) youth we had a 1972 Renault R12.. > >awesome. but that was one ugly looking car. when i was in europe, i >remember seeing some dude with a renault 3.0 v6 in an r12. bet it was >fun to drive! > UGLY, yes, but it would outhandle just about anything I could put it up against, and the suspension soaked up the WORST roads.. With the 1300 engine it was underpowered, but the handling ballanced things out. > >> On the rough roads of central Africa the American cars would not have >> stood up well either. Killed my '67 Peugeot too. The '49 VW stood up >> pretty well, considering!!! > >i always thought these were fun: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:220505_simca.jpg >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alpine_A110_1600_-_001.jpg
From: Mike Hunter on 13 Feb 2010 11:52 (Cross posting deleted, automatically) "raamman" <raamman(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:cad31ca5-b2fa-4908-8a03-5b66a334345f(a)b18g2000vba.googlegroups.com... On Feb 10, 2:25 am, "JimG" <newsgro...(a)abetterplacetobe.com> wrote: > Why is Toyota the subject of many recent post on a GM newsgroup?
From: Mike Hunter on 13 Feb 2010 11:53 (Cross posting deleted, automatically) <clare(a)snyder.on.ca> wrote in message news:7pfcn5l7kl2c1b25c87muggkrh27ihp9mj(a)4ax.com... > On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:37:14 -0500, Hachiroku ???? <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> > wrote: > >>On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:54:44 -0500, clare wrote: >> >>>>And the emissions and safety
From: Mike Hunter on 13 Feb 2010 11:53
(Cross posting deleted, automatically) "jim beam" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:C9WdnRWlsIQSIOvWnZ2dnUVZ_qCdnZ2d(a)speakeasy.net... > On 02/12/2010 10:00 PM, clare(a)snyder.on.ca wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:37:14 -0500, Hachiroku ????<Trueno(a)e86.GTS> >> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:54:44 -0500, clare wrote: >>> >>>>> And the emissions and safety requirements are different, too. >>>>> >>>>> Jeff >>>> Not to forget, |