sanity check

[TWFAUST at aol.com]

Well, right off the top, I'm an American and a little Detroit DNA in  my 
cars doesn't bother me a bit. A bud has a 2009 Cadillac CTS-V, rather  
impressive in terms of brute force. Then, of course, there is that Nuremberg  Ring 
record. I admit, it is a little rough around the edges, but you have to be  
an aficionado to really notice it. And, it was a first real effort. I can 
well  remember the first 911's. They all had the paint burned off the engine 
lid, the  carburetors burst into flames.
 
My supercharged Cougar is finally old enough to drink and has been used  
lately to pull down trees. It is probably time to look for another car. All  
things considered, with an emphasis on price, that CTS coupe is way up on my  
list. Whether I would shell out for the "V" option is still a question.
 
There is no doubt American cars went into a serious decline, at least  30 
years ago. At the dawn of my memory my father always had Cadillacs and  
Rivieras, they never faltered and they never failed. I remember when he killed  
Bambi's mother with one of the Cadillacs, that did a job on it. Perhaps they 
can  regain that. Look at Honda and Toyota. Those of us in the Northeast, 
with longer  memories, can recall when the bottoms fell out of those things 
after 4 years.  Now they are examples of "what cars ought to be". It wasn't so 
long ago that  Audi fans were known as "team door handle".
 
I like my Audis.
 
Tom Faust