"jonah" <jonah@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:fi58j150dhnduifq9be9a7janm7uo3tiql@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:03:19 +1000, "Winux P" <winuxp@msnews.grp>
> wrote:
>
> snip
>>>
>>> Which is the best car - Ford, Chevrolet, BMW, Lamborghini?
>>
>>Mustang - A big red one at that.
>>
>>- Winux P
>
> Mustang??? (falls about laughing)

In the marketing world Mustang equates to big balls. Nothing more.

>
> Like driving a bouncy castle - looks great, sounds great, end of. Same
> for those Camero thingys delayed action steering + seasickness like
> driving a supertanker. Tried one of them big Ford Trucks - Lightning
> it were called, ridiculously large engine, appalingly bad build
> quality and steering that can go through a quarter turn before
> anything happens there is so much play in it.
>
> There have been many great cars built but only a few US car were ever
> worthy of respect - Shelby Cobra comes to mind - little else.
> Corvettes har har, and whats this Crossfire thing we are getting
> foisted on us, actually the Crossfire is vastly better than most US
> cars so you are learning. Its the first one I have driven for many
> years that was fun to drive.
>
> FFS The French build cars that are light years better than you yanks
> and they are not even well regarded in Europe, to get some respect you
> need a Beemer or Merc. Ever wondered why US cars don't sell in Europe
> try a European Spec Renault Megane theres your answer. Note EU spec
> means less emmission strangling and proper suspension not the US
> wallowy water bed version.
>

Not an American, but I somewhat agree, here (in Australia) Japanese cars out
did the American ones out of sheer realiablity and costs (Euro cars are
still a bit more pricey here, but great), I try to avoid American
engineering, I prefer craftmanship to cost cutting mass production measures.
Just look at Windows. Much prefer, a Toshiba than an IB(bloody hopless)M,
Lexus to a Chevy, SuSE Linux (when it was German) to Redhat, a CZ to a
Remington, Chinotto to a Coke, watching grass grow to a Holywood movie, a
vegemite sandwich to a McDonalds burger, any leader to....errr well even The
Terminator would make a better president than the current "girly man".

> Go on flame me
Love to, Friday night was a bit too big, no energy left to expend.

>
> 8-)

(:~\

- Winux P

>
>
>>
>>>
>>> I use XOSL. It can easily handle all of the above, it's got a
>>> nice GUI and it's free. Even better: It only modifies the MBR
>>> but does not interfere with the boot environment of the
>>> individual OSs.
>>>
>>>
> Ta for that need a stress free boot manager
>
> Jonah