Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 23:46:06 +0000 From: <cggsnopsamere.co.uk> Subject: Re: Saab or GM?
In article <BA2E854B.2562%pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk>, Paul Halliday <pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk> writes > Styling is very important to us >Brits. So we claim as our own style icons such as the Triumph TR7, The Wedgie Princess, The Allegro, the Marina. Oh I forgot the nation's favourite , the Ford Cortina. For my money the Hyundai Coupe joins that troupe too. >I think your point is that Saab manufacture solid, driveable and fun cars. >This is *not* typical of European engineering. Merc, BMW, etc make heavy but >responsive vehicles. It comes and goes. Saab have had 10 years with a lot of the 'fun' designed out but it looks like they may have found some again. (you could argue just how much 'fun' the excellent but not very quick non- turbo c900s were -not that much imho) VW had loads of fun in the Golf GTi but have lost a lot of it. BMW have never lost it with their smaller models at least. >You don't mention Fiat, Ferrari, etc - they make >killing machines ... I still love Fiat (my Punto GT was the car I could have >killed myself in - 130 BHP on a car that small was just dangerous). You can kill yourself in any car, it just takes a bit more madness in a Saab. 130bhp was fantastic fun in the Peugeot 205 1.9. By the airbagged standards of today you could consider it dangerous but that's hardly a reason for not selling thousands of the things to enthusiastic owners in the 80's. --
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