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From: Paul Furman on 24 May 2010 14:27 Savageduck wrote: > > The original Ford "Festiva" was marketed in the US and bombed. Those are fun little tin cans. A friend had one for a while that was given to him by another friend <g>. Pretty roomy inside actually.
From: Paul Heslop on 31 May 2010 12:43
John Turco wrote: > > Paul Heslop wrote: > > > > Rich wrote: > > > > > > On May 21, 7:24 pm, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...(a)REMOVEgmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > > > > drugs began to take hold. I remember Paul Heslop > > > > <paul.hes...(a)blueyonder.co.uk> saying something like: > > > > > > > > >it's for Japan only, which means they believe that Japanese people > > > > >will buy anything :O) > > > > > > > > The Japanese market is full of stuff like that. Blinged-up gear that has > > > > a short life, then is yesterday's fashion accessory. If Pentax see a > > > > profitable way of shifting their cameras in their home market, best of > > > > luck to them. > > > > > > Their taste is like their taste in cars. Undergunned, with cheezy, > > > non-functional wings and scoops, covered with stickers that mean > > > nothing, etc. > > > > Top Gear basically said the japanese can only design cars based on > > ones which already exist, otherwise they come up with some ugly thing > > which looks like a committee produced it. I don't know how that stands > > nowadays but it always struck me when i was younger that their cars > > were cheaper versions of something already out there. > > I agree that the Japanese automobile manufacturers have cranked out > their fair share of boring aesthetic designs. > > Nonetheless, French cars regularly win the Grand Prix of Putridity, > in my opinion. For sheer ugliness, they're hard to beat. they seem to be trying at Renault, but otherwise yeah, maybe that old Citroen/maserati was my previous favourite. http://www.maserati-alfieri.co.uk/maser/brooks-citroen-maserati.jpg -- Paul (we break easy) ------------------------------------------------------- Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/ |