Europe Loves The Mustang

Woo wrote:

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> Ken Ehrett wrote:
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>> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:26:37 GMT, the guvnor
>> > wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:15:35 GMT, "Larry J."
>>> > wrote:
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>>>> Waiving the right to remain silent, the guvnor
>>>> > said:
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>>>>> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:24:31 -0500, "Joel Jacobs"
>>>>> > wrote:
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>>>>>>>> Yurop has never played fair with auto imports from the US.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Note how the US car market is closed to true competition due
>>>>>>> to your fedralisation rules.
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> Improve your friggin' build quality on cars other than the
>>>>>> Rolls, and Americans might well buy your cars - IF you build
>>>>>> them to world standards of crash worthiness. I loved Rover, but
>>>>>> Rovers - other than the old Land Rovers - were pieces of crap.
>>>>>> AND, your cars are expensive! Parts were expensive, a decent
>>>>>> mechanic was hardly ever to be found.
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>>>>> An American crying about car build quality???
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>>>>>> I don't think you realize just how large this country is.
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>>>>> Smaller than Russia, Canada and China.
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>>>> How about marketwise..?
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>>> The Russians have more oil, the Canadians more timber and China
>>> dominated world manufacturing.
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>>> What is it that you people do?
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>> The Russians need our technology to locate, drill and pump their oil
>> out of the ground in the severe weather conditions of Siberia.
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>> Ninety percent of Canaduh's population lives within 10 miles of the US
>> Border and most of them work for US owned companies.
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>> China does not manufacture much of anything. What they really do is
>> assemble products that are shipped to them and then ship back the
>> finished product.
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> Like american spy planes?

We're still flying those babies, innit.

--
Chris F.
Long Island.

"A country soars its highest when it soars on the Wings of Freedom."
God Bless America.

the guvnor wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 21:26:52 -0400, America the Beautiful
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>>the guvnor wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 06:18:48 -0400, America the Beautiful
> wrote:
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>>>>>>>The Russians have more oil, the Canadians more timber and China
>>>>>>>dominated world manufacturing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Where does that leave Yurop, then..?
>>>>>
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>>>>>Running it all.
>>>>
>>>>You mean "Running AND all".
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>>>We Europeans run the world, note how you chubby Americans aspire to
>>>all thinks European...
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>>I never got the memo.
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> We sent it to your masters in Israel.

Must have gotten blown up on a bus with 15 kids on there way to school.

--
Chris F.
Long Island.

"A country soars its highest when it soars on the Wings of Freedom."
God Bless America.

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 06:53:21 -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.
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>Sure - quality rusted auto parts, innit.

How could rusted ones be quality??

the guvnor wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:41:12 -0400, America the Beautiful
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>>the guvnor wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 08:20:17 -0400, ZombyWoof >
>>>wrote:
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>>>>>We Europeans run the world, note how you chubby Americans aspire to
>>>>>all thinks European...
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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.

--
Chris F.
Long Island.

"A country soars its highest when it soars on the Wings of Freedom."
God Bless America.

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 07:04:11 -0400, America the Beautiful
> wrote:

>>>Nor were the French, but hells bells man it was a war that wasn't
>>>being fought to win.
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>> The Communists fought to win and beat America.
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>The commies fought to spread communism across Asia. We stopped them in
>there tracks, innit.

They won!

the guvnor wrote:

> 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?
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> Ever wondered why that despite being cheap and nasty, American cars
> still don't sell?

Somebody's buying them.....

"The only sports car that matters"
http://www.btinternet.com/~a.s.greenfield/

http://www.mocgb.net/index.html

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

http://www.ukviperclub.org/

--
Chris F.
Long Island.

"A country soars its highest when it soars on the Wings of Freedom."
God Bless America.

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 07:02:51 -0400, America the Beautiful
> wrote:

>> 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?
>
>Somebody's buying them.....
>
>"The only sports car that matters"
>http://www.btinternet.com/~a.s.greenfield/

"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 guvnor wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 01:56:37 -0400, ZombyWoof >
> wrote:
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>>>>Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has
>>>>been the world's only superpower.
>>>>
>>>>The unique position of the United States (at least in terms of
>>>>military force)
>>>
>>>See America not even being able to win the Vietnam war.
>>>
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>>Nor were the French, but hells bells man it was a war that wasn't
>>being fought to win.
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>
> The Communists fought to win and beat America.

The commies fought to spread communism across Asia. We stopped them in
there tracks, innit.

--
Chris F.
Long Island.

"A country soars its highest when it soars on the Wings of Freedom."
God Bless America.

the guvnor wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 06:40:52 -0400, America the Beautiful
> > wrote:
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>>>>Actually that isn't it.
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>>>Is so, you've not noticed that all your belonings have "Made in PRC"
>>>on them?
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>>I own not one thing that says "Made in PRC" on it.
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> Of course you do.

I really don't. Our labels say "Made in China".

--
Chris F.
Long Island.

"A country soars its highest when it soars on the Wings of Freedom."
God Bless America.

the guvnor wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 06:52:34 -0400, America the Beautiful
> > wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>The Russians have more oil, the Canadians more timber and China
>>>>>>>>>dominated world manufacturing.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Where does that leave Yurop, then..?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Running it all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You mean "Running AND all".
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>We Europeans run the world, note how you chubby Americans aspire to
>>>>>all thinks European...
>>>>
>>>>I never got the memo.
>>>
>>>
>>>We sent it to your masters in Israel.
>>
>>Must have gotten blown up on a bus with 15 kids on there way to school.
>
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> Those nasty Israelis will blow up anything that moves, remember what
> they did to your USS Liberty?

Sure I remember. I haven't forgotten though.

Hey, remember the Battle of Plattsburgh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Plattsburgh

--
Chris F.
Long Island.

"A country soars its highest when it soars on the Wings of Freedom."
God Bless America.