OT: Cheap cars (was: 1%...)

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Hans Franke wrote: Hans, have you ever driven or ridden in a comfortable large American car from the early to mid 1970's, and seen how solidly it was constructed, and how it had features missing from today's newer cars? Back then, one could even choose from a very wide, by today's standards, variety of carpet styles/textures and colors as well as the types of seat coverings, styles of seats, etc. Hmmm... I'd find the joke funnier of the words "Volvo," (can you say "ugly boring cars?") "BMW" (can you say "overpriced VW Beetle?") or the name of some random japmobile (they wouldn't exist if most of the old US cars hadn't been scrapped so that japan could buy the scrap) was substituted. No, I don't apologize for a lower-case japan. No country that treats dogs and cats as "novelty items," to be disposed of by dropping them in chutes on a street-corner like one drops a letter into a mailbox, so that they can later be destroyed by mechanical means, so that a human doesn't have to see them killed, deserves to have it's name capitalized. Of course, I see no reason why most modern American automobiles as well can't be substituted for this joke. Minivans, 4WD vehicles and the so-called station wagons - if one can call those new tiny vehices station wagons, no longer even have tailgate windows that open, due to the cheapness of design. While the "quality" of modern automobiles reeks of cheapness, the prices are nothing other than overly expensive. -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.net 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.net beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.