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".

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"Dori A Schmetterling" > wrote in message
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> 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

In Germany they were known as Strassenkreuzer (road cruisers)

DAS

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"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".
>
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> Civis Romanus Sum