Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 18:37:54 +1000 From: "The Gardners" <guardnersnopsam.com.au> Subject: Re: Mercedes smokes BMW/Saab/Volvo with better model names
AMEN, BROTHER! AMEM! This is just what I wanted to say. Al Gardner Terragni wrote in message <7ipnb5$3hanopsamnicle.concentric.net>... >This is the most stupid thing i have ever read. Those "comfy" car names are >akin to people who go to pepsi cola web sites and who watch too much fucking >television. The numbers that designate SAAB cars demonstrate HISTORY in the >car maker. The numbering goes back to the first airplanes they made. And the >numbers are an "engineer" thing and this i why we love saabs because they >are excellently engineered. Saabs are not for the general public, they are >for thinking people. The 'comfy' car names are for people who have no >imagination and need these hokey-ass names for inspiration because they are >BRAIN DEAD. It is just like the idiots who invent names for housing >developments, like "Rolling Meadows" or "Thousand Oaks". There were never >1000 oak trees in that devlopment. Just like a "Malibu" is not made or >designed or driven for that matter in Malibu CA. Malibu is full of rich >people who drive EUROPEAN cars with NUMBERS for names. I suppose you will >celebrate the new milenium on Jan 1 2000. WAKE up it is Jan 1 2001. It is >called being a lemming, these are the people who cannot think for >themselves. > >