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Dori A Schmetterling wrote:
> As you all know, pickup trucks are not very popular in Europe, for a variety > of reasons. > > You might, thus, amuse yourselves by reading this review written by a > journalist in the UK Sunday Times (the leading quality Sunday paper here) > after he bought a Ford Ranger. FYI Brian Appleyard is not normally a > motoring writer. > > Ok, it's not a Chrysler (but he does mention having seen Dodge Rams and > comments on their environmental friendliness) but it might still be a fun > read. > http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...0581_1,00.html > That was good for a chuckle. Very different set of social "sensibilities" on opposite sides of the pond, I guess. The thought of being insulted by being mistaken for a painter or decorator would never occur to me. Quite a few facts wrong too- for one thing auto emissions are associated with "greenhouse" gasses, and NOT with ozone depletion (chloroflourocarbons are the ozone-depleters). For another, attributing increased wetlands to "global warming" is pseudo-scientific folly. And it never mentions that the Ranger is, in fact, a COMPACT pickup truck and not a standard pickup. But a good read nonetheless. |
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