Rental car woes...LONG(sorry)

[Allan Jones <ampj@tiac.net>]

Kwattro@aol.com wrote:
> In the meantime, I have been driving a Chevy Corsica.  Several things bother
> me about this car, mainly how fast it is (but only in a straight line...)  My
> friend and I raced a Adnoh Prelude (old style...) and I backed off at 110,
> where the car felt surprisingly stable..........
> 90 and backed off, in the Cor Sicker.  I keep telling myself  "It has a 3
> liter V6, that's why..."  but it is not consolation.   I hate american cars.

Hi guys,
	I told myself:'no list tonight!' and what happens..  as soon as my girl
left, I jump on the net! Funny thing is - my GIRL told me:"don't go on
the list tonight! Get some sleep." It won't be so funny to her tomorrow
though....so don't tell, O.K.?!  ;-)
	I won't be long, I promise. I JUST HAD to reply to this though! A few
months back, I was without my Baby for a serious amount of time because
it was getting its 2nd 'total' of the year repaired, I think(can't
remember...I'm so tired I'm useless...I'd call my girl to ask but!).
"Anyhuew," I too was "driving a Chevy Corsica" for wheels, with
occasional access to my girl's '95 Mitsu Eclipse - a BASE, stripped,
leased money-maker or count-increaser ...but not too shabby of a
'go-kart' for a car with bicycle tires and certainly a relief from the
Corsica, but her car and one AMAZING incident on Rt.93N is another
story!
	The Corsica is a disappointingly fast car to some of us listers/Audi
owners because its straight line acceleration is not something my N/A
I-5 can mess with, even with a K&N air filter. ;-) actually ;-(   I too
got it up to speed(as I do with just about every car I sit down in - I
know, flame away) but found it not nearly as stable as your's seems to
have been...maybe old suspension, bad tires on my specimen? Whatever the
cause, I felt completely controlled by the wind, road grooves, etc. and
in no manner what-so-ever did it feel stable while performing high-speed
lane changes, even gradual ones. I left that car with my opinion on
American cars unchanged - generally fast straight off the line, but with
a suspension that is NEVER compromised satisfactorily, a character that
is completely void of both finesse and strength(whether it is cornering
or switching the lights on), and a look that NEVER has ANY TRACES of
genealogy or singularity. Why is it that no American car manufacturer
has a grill that is recognizable from one model to the next?!! It's a
simple but completely lost artform to them, and as a result they've lost
their identity!
	I too can't bear the thought of a Corsica being better in any way than
my Baby, and kept reminding myself that it's easy to build an engine
that can pull strongly and put it in a piece o' junk....and I kept
looking at the interior, which was an utterly disgusting joke! The big,
round wiper switch was a reach and to get a 'once-over' for mist it had
to be rotated a certain number of degrees and HELD for several SECONDS
requiring one's right hand and wrist to REMAIN contorted similar to the
final position of a hand in a curve-ball pitch!  Nothing in or on those
cars will last....and if one of us were doing the driving, forget it!
	There are so many negatives about American cars that a surprisingly
quick Corsica can't even begin to pull their image out of the black hole
I have them envisioned in(if that's possible! :-)  I must go to sleep
now, I'm rambling and I've broken two promises already(to keep it short
for Phil and to stay off the net for my girl) so before I go I must
THANK YOU ALL for the help and patience!

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          ALLAN    ampj@tiac.net    '86 COMMEMORATIVE DESIGN COUPE GT
          JONES    Burlington MA     169K and sitting in many pieces
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p.s. Sorry again for the BW Phil, almighty one!  :-)