Europe Loves The Mustang

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 07:02:51 -0400, America the Beautiful
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>the guvnor wrote:
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>> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 01:46:36 -0400, ZombyWoof >
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>>>On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:29:45 -0400, G > wrote
>>>something wonderfully witty:
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>>>>If Europe " loves the Mustang " it's because it's cheap.
>>>>
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>>>Cheap is relative to others in the class. Right now the Europeans
>>>don't really have anything to compete against it at its price point
>>>even with tariffs & VAT. Plus it is American muscle admired and
>>>lusted for since the very first version back in `64.
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>> Admired and lusted over for it's van style suspension?
>>
>> Ever wondered why that despite being cheap and nasty, American cars
>> still don't sell?
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>Somebody's buying them.....

Guvnor's favorite car cover....
http://img82.echo.cx/img82/9456/norespect1rk.jpg


>"American Adventure"
>http://www.mocgb.net/Photos/_America...e05/index.html

Very nice. Love the yellow '67 hardtop. This show had quite a
variety...a pair of '69 Mach 1's, a Saleen , several Fox body LX's,
plus some newer SN95's. And I thought I caught a glimpse of a
McLaren.

Kenshlock de la Fehrêtte wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:55:37 -0400, Sarah Czepiel >
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>>To recap:
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>>I...
>>...don't know anything
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> Whatever Whiskers, whatever

Now the crusty old **** thinks she knows more about the Chinese military
than someone from someone who worked in the military. Next, she'll argue
against Steven Hawking over elementary mathematics.

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"the guvnor" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:51:32 -0500, "Joel Jacobs" >
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>>>>>10% import duty??
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>>>>Those socialist amerikaners have a funny slant on things, don't they.
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>>> Note how Europeans are free to import any car (not that anyone does)
>>> but Americans cannot import any car they choose...
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>>Who the hell in his/her right mind would import most US cars into Europe?
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> It's a choice thing.
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>>I've lived in Europe off an on for the past 25 years, so you "ain't"
>>talking
>>with the "average" Yank.
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> Fair enough.
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>>There are many Euro cars we don't import here into the US. Getting spares
>>for a Renault, TVR, Peugeot, even Fiats do not make it sensible to do so.
>>And then, finding a tech to work on them is another story entirely as
>>well.
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> The differance is that you *can't* import them, at least not for road
> use.
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>>In Europe I found ONE guy who could do the diagnostics on a Corvette while
>>living in Southern Italy and he had the equipment to work on them because
>>he
>>owned both a ZR-1, and a convertible.
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> People in Europe have long forggoten how pushrod engines work?
>

And that oil is supposed to stay inside the engine, and electrics are
supposed to work for more than a week.

Al

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:00:00 -0400, America the Beautiful
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>>>>>>>Most I know shun all things European.
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>>>>>>Quality always costs more...
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>>>>>How would you know?
>>>>
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>>>>Because I'm a quality European surrounded by quality things, innit.
>>>
>>>Sure - quality rusted auto parts, innit.
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>> How could rusted ones be quality??
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>I don't know, but you said you are surrounded by european quality.

Quality European cars don't rust.

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 08:12:44 -0700, Arista Sandoval >
wrote:

>In article >, the guvnor
> wrote:
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>> Those nasty Israelis will blow up anything that moves
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>Is that some of that quality European anti-Semitism?

How is it anti-semitic?????

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
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>The next generation of American muscle car will be the Ford Jaguar.

See how we English come to your rescue everytime...

>>> "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."

Get a little choked on your s****** there as the Corvette just wont 1&2 in
Class at LeMans, and
5&6 overall?

Oh, say it isn't so! Say it isn't so!

Alas, child, 'tis true.

the guvnor wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:55:37 -0400, Sarah Czepiel >
> wrote:
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>>You may be retired from the USN but you're an idiot. What were you a
>>Yeoman or a Boatswain's Mate? You don't know anything about nuclear
>>deterrent and it sounds like you really should stick to worrying about
>>setting your Sea and Anchor detail and leaving the details of global
>>strategic defense to the experts.
>
>
> Ugly Sarah, a stay at home *old* housewife pretending that she knows
> more about the navy at than someone who was in it??

She's a member of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists.

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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 04:34:19 GMT, rw >
wrote:

>the guvnor wrote:
>> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:55:37 -0400, Sarah Czepiel >
>> wrote:
>>
>>
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>>>You may be retired from the USN but you're an idiot. What were you a
>>>Yeoman or a Boatswain's Mate? You don't know anything about nuclear
>>>deterrent and it sounds like you really should stick to worrying about
>>>setting your Sea and Anchor detail and leaving the details of global
>>>strategic defense to the experts.
>>
>>
>> Ugly Sarah, a stay at home *old* housewife pretending that she knows
>> more about the navy at than someone who was in it??
>
>She's a member of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists.

Thanks for demonstrating that neither of you two angry juveniles have
any intelligent remarks to contribute.

Sarah Czepiel wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 04:34:19 GMT, rw >
> wrote:
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>>She's a member of the 101st Fighting Keyboardists.
>
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> Thanks for demonstrating that neither of you two angry juveniles have
> any intelligent remarks to contribute.

I'm 58 (hardly a juvenile) and I'm not angry, but I'm amused by people
like you. Watching someone so uninformed and so jingoistic and so --
let's face it -- ignorant and dim, make an absolute fool of themselves
is entertaining in a car-wreck-on-the-side-of-the-road kind of way.

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