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#240904 - 11/11/2004 16:37 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: MarkH]
andy
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an AMG SL65 (Clarkson)


...and soon he will have a Ford GT40, so the others take the piss every time he says something nice about any Ford.
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#240905 - 11/11/2004 16:39 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: MarkH]
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Which also shows that, contary to the opinions on that Corvette board, he is happy to buy the a US car even with his obvious bias against the US.


Edited by andy (11/11/2004 16:39)

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#240906 - 11/11/2004 19:01 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: frog51]
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Registered: 12/11/2001
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Loc: Toronto, CANADA
I don't need to step in a pile of crap to know it's crap. Of course a thread in a forum about crap is going to contain predominantly crap. And if someone is posting in that thread, it's because they have a membership for crap and are therefore interested in crap. You can probably say they have a taste for crap. That being, crap taste.

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A Vette is delicate and beautiful sports car. A real flower in the GM garden.
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#240907 - 11/11/2004 20:32 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: pgrzelak]
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...strange foreign humour...

Well, the UK (and the rest of the world) does the same with our choice of president...

(Before anyone comments - it was a joke! We have enough bashing threads at the moment. I do not want to start another. Thanks.)

Hey, it's not fair, giving such a nice cue and then asking us not to comment!
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#240908 - 11/11/2004 23:28 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: Redrum]
bonzi
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Aw, come on, Redrum, cheer up! I finally watched the segment; they were delighted with Vette's handling and how fun generally it is (and that's what this car is all about, right?), and they noted that it is rather affordable, contrary to all those other cars that raced it. OK, they perhaps overdid that "leaf spring" thing (I would have mentioned that transversal composite leaf spring is quite a clever solution), but they needed something to joke about. As for "The Colonies", if you lost two and a half continets worth of them, you too would make self-effacing jokes about it.
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#240909 - 11/11/2004 23:32 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: bonzi]
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if you lost two and a half continets worth of them, you too would make self-effacing jokes about it.

Yes, just think of what it must be like to be the ultimate power of your era and then....oh.
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#240910 - 11/11/2004 23:37 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: jimhogan]
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if you lost two and a half continets worth of them, you too would make self-effacing jokes about it.

Yes, just think of what it must be like to be the ultimate power of your era and then....oh.

Paul said 'no Bush-bashing' in this tread (I think this applies to 'New American Century', too).
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#240911 - 11/11/2004 23:49 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: bonzi]
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Paul said 'no Bush-bashing' in this tread

Methinks you have become crossthreaded!
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#240912 - 12/11/2004 01:39 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: hybrid8]
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A Vette is delicate and beautiful sports car. A real flower in the GM garden.


I am afraid I must disagree with you here.

IMHO, the 'Vette is the only flower in the GM garden.

Well... maybe the new Cadillacs will start to turn things around for them, but in typical GM tradition, just when they start to get them really "right" they'll abandon that course of action for something truly awful instead.

tanstaafl.
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#240913 - 12/11/2004 01:56 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: tanstaafl.]
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IMHO, the 'Vette is the only flower in the GM garden.
What, you don't like the hummer?

//me runs away
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#240914 - 12/11/2004 02:27 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: JeffS]
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What, you don't like the hummer?


Well, not the kind you drive, anyway...

Oh... did I say that out loud?

tanstaafl..
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#240915 - 12/11/2004 02:41 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: tanstaafl.]
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Oh... did I say that out loud?
Actually, no you didn't.
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#240916 - 12/11/2004 03:23 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: tanstaafl.]
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I was being sarcastic... it was a polite way to phrase the old standby: "Vettes are nice. ...If you're gay."

But since I don't think anything's wrong with being gay, I didn't write that. I just don't like Vettes. Camaros even less.

My lust list includes a 2004 BMW M3, 2004 NSX, as-yet unreleased 2006 NSX and a Noble M14.

Bruno
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#240917 - 12/11/2004 13:19 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: hybrid8]
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A BMW M3?? Are you gay??
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#240918 - 12/11/2004 20:19 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: furtive]
hybrid8
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That doesn't work on German cars.

Bruno

Except a Jetta. But then only for women.
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#240919 - 12/11/2004 21:53 Re: I'm glad Americans are not all Corvette owners [Re: hybrid8]
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What about the new Beetle convertible? Or the new Mini?
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