Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 22:38:56 +0100 From: "Dori A Schmetterling" <ngnospamam.co.uk> Subject: Re: Cost of repair Audi BMW Saab...(crossposting)
In what town are you in? Randstad...?... DAS -- For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling --- "Peter Bozz" <fake-usernospam.email.address> wrote in message news:40a1c378$0$15375$e4fe514cnospam.xs4all.nl... > Dori A Schmetterling wrote: > > At least in Germany seeing lots of BMWs and Mercs is no illusion! They are > > top sellers: > > http://www.kfz-auskunft.de/kfz/pkw_neuzulassungen_2003.html > > > > In the Netherlands I seem to see Mercs on every corner... > > > > DAS > > A short drive around where I live revealed 8 Mercs. Now, > it's no Beverly Hills, just a fairly affluent neighborhood of > a big Dutch city (actually, I crossed over into the affluent > neighborhood from the not-so-affluent part of town I live in). > There were a couple of Saabs and a few of the ubiquitous V40/V70 > Volvos. I counted 6 BMWs and at least one A6, two A4s, a Jaguar XJ > and a Lexus LS400. Most of the Mercs were of course C series. I > didn't count the CLK Cabrio my local drug dealer drives: he's > hardly representative of the general population and might > skew my empirical data. I guestimate that I must have seen about > 500 cars. > > Most people here seem to have a, shall we say, predilection for spacious > MPV type of cars, mostly uninspiring brands I coudn't even tell apart. > Think Ford, Opel, Peugeot, Fiat, some Japanese and Korean brands, > whatever. > > I wonder, what city was it that you say you saw Mercs on > every corner? > > Peter >
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