RE: bashing detroit, was Re: One invincible A8 and a cool driver.

["Paul Wilson" <pauldwilson@ne.mediaone.net>]

Admittedly, American cars certainly seem like POS's.  However, do statistics
bear this out?  Are there any exceptions?  American trucks certainly seem
pretty good and every once in awhile there is a car out of Detroit that
seems decent.  Forinstance, the interior of a Seville STS actually seems of
very high quality, as it should for that price.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-quattro@audifans.com [mailto:owner-quattro@audifans.com]On
> Behalf Of John Cunningham
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 1999 8:41 PM
> To: scott miller
> Cc: caliban@sharon.net; quattro@audifans.com
> Subject: bashing detroit, was Re: One invincible A8 and a cool driver.
>
>
> never one to miss a chance to bash american cars, i have to say, a current
> Chrysler is a far better product than from the General these
> days.  i just drove
> a brand new Olds rental the other day that was the biggest huge
> of sh*t you can
> imagine.  only improvement in 20 years was probably the addition
> of huge roll
> bars so it doesn't wallow like sinking barge quite so badly.  bad
> ride, terrible
> seats/ergonomics. bizarre and ancient controls.  those idiots
> still actually
> make you use the two keys, 1 for ignition and a different one for
> the doors.  my
> friend and coworker along for the ride suggested it was probably
> because they
> couldn't get past the vast technical problem of coordinating matching lock
> cylinders in the doors and ignition on the assembly line.  he's
> probably right.
> have had the misfortune to ride in Buicks, drive several flavors
> of Chevy, and
> an occaisional Pontiac, all with the same 70's focus group
> mediocrity of design
> and bean counter cheap construction.  Pontiacs the least offensive.   on
> Chryslers, the rental Intrepid was far better example, IYLTKOT* of course.
> rental Cirrus was way better than the rental Lumina, etc.   not
> that i want to
> drive or own any of that stuff...   and oh yeah, trucks excepted.
>  we can do
> trucks.
>
> (* if you like that kind of thing)
>
> scott miller wrote:
>
> > I'd put Chrysler with Radio Shack on quality.  I buy stuff from
> radio shack,
> > but it's cheap and I don't expect as much from it.  An awful lot of
> > Americans expect better from Chrysler than Audi, but they're slowly
> > learning.
>
>