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RIP Chrysler!!!
Miles wrote:
> Jim Higgins wrote: >> Miles wrote: >>> Lloyd wrote: >>> >>>> The Honda Accord is officially a full-size car >>> >>> By whose standards? Compared to what? The Accord is certainly not a >>> full sized car compared to the traditional decades old use of the term. >> >> Operatove word there is "old". Times have really changed. > > Then what do you call the a brand new car thats comparable in size to > the traditional older full sized vehicles? What do you call those older > full sized vehicles? Cars like the Accord were called mid sized. The > original Accords of years ago were compacts. In today's world the old size cars would be called "barges" or "behemoths". -- Civis Romanus Sum |
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RIP Chrysler!!!
"Dori A Schmetterling" > wrote in message ... > Funny, I thought that was a kolkhoz. But then I don't speak Russian. Kolhosp isn't Russian I don't speak Russian. I asked my mother. Kolkhoz is the Russian word. > > Anyway, the farm worker I mentioned probably first surfaced on one of > those... > > I noticed that you, in an earlier posting, (correctly) alluded to my > handle... My great aunt was teh first Madama B. I couldn't have missed it mk5000 in 1959 my apartment in north beach had split-rattan blinds and kandisky posters scotch-taped to the walls and a table made from a door “Poster,” How to Ride on the Woodlawn Express, SUN, 1986, Robert Hershorn |
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RIP Chrysler!!!
In Germany they were known as Strassenkreuzer (road cruisers)
DAS To send an e-mail directly replace "spam" with "schmetterling" --- "Jim Higgins" > wrote in message computertechnology... > Miles wrote: >> Jim Higgins wrote: >>> Miles wrote: >>>> Lloyd wrote: >>>> >>>>> The Honda Accord is officially a full-size car >>>> >>>> By whose standards? Compared to what? The Accord is certainly not a >>>> full sized car compared to the traditional decades old use of the term. >>> >>> Operatove word there is "old". Times have really changed. >> >> Then what do you call the a brand new car thats comparable in size to the >> traditional older full sized vehicles? What do you call those older full >> sized vehicles? Cars like the Accord were called mid sized. The >> original Accords of years ago were compacts. > > In today's world the old size cars would be called "barges" or > "behemoths". > > -- > Civis Romanus Sum |
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