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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: Amiga will bump Mac.
Message-ID: <1991Apr05.005647.2047@convex.com>
Date: 5 Apr 91 00:56:47 GMT
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In article <1056@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>In article <1991Apr03.224953.21366@convex.com> swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:
>>
>>If you want an automobile analogy I'd say that the Mac was a Cadillac;
>>
>>Actually in Europe the Amiga has no problem claiming the title of "Chevy".
>
>Please, when using such analogies, consider also that we Europeans are
>doing very hard to understand them: For us *every* Chevy or Cadillac
>are BIG, HUGE street cruisers that don't fit on our narrow streets
>here. But reading between the lines I guess that "Chevy" stands for
>"cheap" and "Cadillac" for "expensive/luxury"? Is that true?
>(Sorry, such things are not taught at school :-)

Yes, the Chevy and Cadillac are both owned by General Motors.

Cadillac is the big luxury car.  Chevrolet did make some big cars, it is true,
but the majority of them have been the smaller sedans.

When I think of Chevy I think of the Camaro (that was my Chevy), the Nova,
the Chevette, the Chevelle, and the Malabu.  All were smaller models (mostly
2-door) that had a lot of potential for cheap power.  Of course you could
always hot-rod a Ford or a Chrysler, but nothing was as cheap and easy to
build as a Chevy small-block 350 (of course you can still do this today, but
these engines are not going into new automobiles today).  Then there is the
Corvette.  This is the expensive Chevy.

Sorry for the confusion.  To be more precise I should actually say that the
Amiga performs in the European PC market in a manner analogous to Chevrolet
in the US automobile market.  ;^)

BTW, if you have ever driven a 1969 model Camaro, you will have no trouble
recognising that you are not in a Cadillac.  ;^)  You could flatten vertabrae
going over bumps in that thing  (of course after 22 years suspensions get less
springy).
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