Re: Carbon Copies

["Graydon D. Stuckey" <graydon@apollo.gmi.edu>]

On Wed, 27 Nov 1996 i6941tb@gnn.com wrote:

> 
> Yep, the Sterling, a.k.a. Acura Legend (for us in the US)
> also
> the Scirocco, a.k.a. Isuzu Impulse.
Igor,

	The Isuzu Piazza was called the Impulse in the US. This car, in
show car form was the Ace of Spades (it _may_ have been the Ace of one of
the other three suits - I forget exactly) by Giugiaro of Italdesign, and
was offered to VW as a Scirocco replacement since Giugiaro designed the
first Scirocco, but VW refused it, deciding instead to design their own
2nd generation Scirocco.   I always thought that VW did a decent job on 
the 2nd gen Scirocco, but it certainly was not in the stylistic league of 
the Piazza.  Mechanically, the Isuzu Piazza was based on the Chevette 
platform, so they really were trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
	To relate this to a Quattro list is rather tenuous at best, but 
the 2nd generation Impulse was based on an entirely different platform 
(that of the Geo Storm - much uglier too I might add) and in Canada, it was 
also marketed in an AWD configuration.

Later, ---------------------------------------------------------- 
Graydon D. Stuckey 	'85 Mazda RX7 GS, no toys 
graydon@apollo.gmi.edu 	'86 Audi 5000 CS Turbo Quattro, has toys
Flint, Michigan USA	'89 Thunderbird SC, lotsa toys