Re: Ur-q: Daily Driver? Winter use?

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <004601be78c6$9c6d0240$1ed8accf@jgriff.erols.com> "Jim Griffin" writes:

> >I took great delight in declaiming at the last Area K meeting that I
> >would be "laying my ur-quattro up for the summer".
>
> You mean that you don't like driving it at all times? That you have something
> better to drive in the summer? I don't believe it... :-)

No, I was winding up those members who won't take their car out of the
garage from September to May.  A lot of Club cars are on 'classic'
insurance - mileage limited to 3000 miles a year.

> > Ein Auto ist ein Verbrauchsgegenstand.
>
> Which translates into?

It doesn't, properly.  "A car is a consumer product" - but the
implication is that it _should_ be 'consumed'.

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