Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 14:07:11 +0200 From: Nel Frikandel <nelfrikandelnopsamail.com> Subject: Re: Got my Saab -- sort of
>Don't blame the car for the marketeers. I would never have bought a Saab >if I had done that. The Dutch Saab ads (especially radio) are really >horribly elitist and spoken in an obnoxious posh voice. > >I used to own a really old rusty Opel station car with a hole in the >side that I called 'Achmed' because that type of car was particularly >favored by Turkish immigrants living in Holland. Unfortunately the >engine died on me some day. I never bothered to name a car since... > My 9000 is called "Luxe Nel" (=Luxurious Nell), because the letters in the license plate are LX-NL..., and she (!) is very luxurious... The current standard Dutch license plates have 4 consonants, which can make fun names, by just adding vowels. I once owned a Citroen CX with SX-LD..., which we dubbed "SeXy LaDy"! However I also once owned a '79 CX 2.4 Prestige which I called the "Mitterand" because it felt so presidential... Just foolin' around you know, nothing serious... Nelleke PS: The SAAB radio commercials are indeed stupid. Especially the one for the business edition 9-3 a while back...
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