an observation about european cars vs the rest of the world....

[Larry C Leung]

Hmmm, you are right, of course, but that now blows VW's naming of cars by
winds out of the water (so to speak). I DO know that it was named for
something geological not something that Tiger excels at!

LL - NY

On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:14:43 -0400 George Selby <gselby4x4 at earthlink.net>
writes:
>At 09:11 PM 9/6/01 -0400, you wrote:
>>Golf is named after the German spelling of Gulf, the A1, A2, A3 and 
>A4
>>series of hatchbacks were named after the Gulf Stream that blows 
>along
>>the US East Coast.
>
>The Gulf Stream is a water current off the eastern coast of the US, 
>contains a lot of fish (that's where the deep sea fishermen go off the 
>NC 
>coast to catch the big ones.) As far as I know there is no wind that 
>runs 
>parallel with it.  In fact the prevailing wind here is in exactly the 
>
>opposite direction (The Gulf Stream is about 150 miles away from me.)
>
>George Selby
>70 F-100 Ranger XLT 400 C6
>78 F-150 4x4 400 4 spd
>83 Audi Coupe GT
>86 Nissan 300ZX
>92 Subaru Legacy Wagon AWD
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>