On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:25:51 -0400, America the Beautiful
> wrote:

>> "But no; our fate is in the hands of a people whose IQ is generally
>> smaller than their waistbands. A people who’ve trawled their 263m
>> citizens and come up with Bush and super-chin as the alternatives. A
>> people whose soldiers wear sunglasses while trying to defuse trouble
>> on the streets of Baghdad. You’re not Jean-Claude Van Damme, you
>> idiots. Take them off. Let them see your eyes. Or are you like the
>> president? Do you only have one?"
>>
>> "As a sort of protest about everything, but the sunglasses thing most
>> of all, my wife recently decided to purge everything American from the
>> house."
>>
>> "At first, I suspected this would be a long and painful task that
>> would send us back to the Dark Ages, but do you know what? Most of the
>> electrical equipment is from Japan, or Germany. The furniture is
>> largely Italian or British. And pretty well everything else was made
>> in China."
>>
>> "It’s billed, like all previous Vettes, as a sports car to rival the
>> best from Europe, and I hope you don’t mind if I s****** politely at
>> this point."
>>
>> "America has never really made a sports car, because while we were
>> hanging it out to dry on Welsh moorland roads, or Alpine passes, they
>> were racing between the lights on Telegraph Road. And for that, you
>> don’t need a pin-sharp turn-in. You need muscle."
>>
>> "And that, contrary to what you may have been told, is what the
>> Vette’s always been about: it’s a car so pumped up on steroids, it
>> would be unable to make a drugs test without falling off its
>> motorcycle. It’s a car with arms like Schwarzenegger but a penis like
>> a shrivelled-up little acorn."
>>
>> "And so we arrive at the C6, expecting more of the same. It’s still
>> plastic. It’s still made in Kentucky. It still has the big V8. And —
>> stop laughing at the back — it still comes with exactly the same sort
>> of suspension that you get on a Silvercross pram. Yup. It has leaf
>> springs, which means it still rides like it’s running on wooden
>> tyres."
>>
>> "Of course, 14th-century suspension has no bearing in the way the car
>> goes. What does have a bearing is the gearbox."
>>
>> "Put your foot down and after a hint of wheelspin — and with tyres the
>> width of a tennis court, it is only a hint — the bruiser launches off
>> the line with what might fairly be termed much gusto. And then, at
>> around 30, everything goes horribly wrong because you have to select
>> second."
>>
>> "There are levers at the National Coal Mining Museum that move with
>> more smoothness than the gearshifter in a C6 Vette. To get second from
>> third, you really need a second elbow. "
>>
>> "Happily, you’re distracted from this most of the time by the HUD. I’m
>> not joking. This car has a head-up display, just like you get in an
>> F-16 fighter."
>>
>> "It’s fantastic. Whole bus queues are hidden behind the digital speed
>> read-out, which is going to make for some wonderful insurance claims.
>> “The old lady was behind my rev counter so I never saw here until
>> she’d already bounced over the roof.”"
>>
>> http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...5587_2,00.html
>
>The next generation of American muscle car will be the Ford Jaguar.

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