Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 01:43:26 -0400 From: "Derek Hawkins" <eldatanopsamcom> Subject: Re: Toyota in top five again (JD Power....)
>>>Obviously, he thought the original subject would be interesting to all - or he'd see if a good flame-war would start between groups that normally don't hang out together<<< Saabs and Volvos are best described as myth mobiles riding on withered laurels from a bygone era. I don't consider them to be good cars at all and probably never will. They are disguised "FIATs" (fix it again tom) albeit with a moderate sprinkling of desirable attributes. One of the reasons for the cross-posting was to see how delusional owners of these cars actually were. Check davehinznopsamcop.net posts for example, the following lines are my favorite; >>>>The Saab owner is more likely to complain when >>>>something goes wrong, because, darn it, it shouldn't. He is yet to grasp the implications of my reply to those lines.