Land Rover does the Mini Ute

[Michael Riebs]

Yeah, looks *just like* the Ford Escape!
Aaaauuuuugghhhhh!
(Can you say Charlie Brown?)

Michael Riebs
Grand Rapids, MI
'90 V8Q
'98 A6QA

www.1stchoicegranite.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Haseltine" <Jim at Ur-q.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>; "Brett Dikeman" <brett at cloud9.net>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: Land Rover does the Mini Ute


> Freelander.
> If I _had_ to drive a Landrover in a city its the one that I'd choose.
Like
> 99.9% of owners I'd not take it anywhere near the countryside.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Haseltine
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brett Dikeman" <brett at cloud9.net>
> To: <quattro at audifans.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 9:56 PM
> Subject: Land Rover does the Mini Ute
>
>
> > So I'm driving through Auburndale with a friend and he notices a land
> > rover on the other side.  "Bleeeech."
> >
> > "What was it?"
> >
> > "It said Land Rover on the hood, and it was ass-ugly."
> >
> > I look in the back mirror quickly, see what looks like a RAV4 from
> > the back, save that the driver hits the brakes and I see 2 sets of
> > lights a la Discovery.
> >
> > Hmm.  Odd.  Must be a new model.
> >
> > So I drop him off, and I'm on my way back.  I'm entering Auburndale
> > and see another.  He's right, blech.  Hmm, must have been at the
> > supermarket.
> >
> > I round the corner.  There's another.
> >
> > Waaaaaaiiit a sec.  This smells of a PR stunt.
> >
> > Sure enough, there's a third.
> >
> > The fourth is pulled into the gas station, surrounded by studio
> > lights, some 18 year old ditzy blond in it, talking to what has to be
> > the cleanest-shaven, best-dressed gas attendant I've ever seen set
> > foot on the place in maybe 10 years(ie, actor, duh.)  The place is
> > totally empty save these yutzes.
> >
> > The sad thing is that you could take a RAV4, slap 10 cent letters
> > from the local hardware store on the hood, and add a pair of brake
> > lights on the back, and presto!  New Land Rover Mini Ute.
> >
> > Bleeeech.  Why can't they make more Defenders* or something?
> >
> > Brett
> > *preferably with the you-know-who-in-passenger-seat option
> > --
> > ----
> > "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary
> > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
> > http://www.users.cloud9.net/~brett/
> >
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