Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Who cares if its made in USA? Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 91 00:16:42 GMT References: <1991Jun24.102852.29436@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <1991Jun24.233106.5282@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu><1991Jun25.170536.9870@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Distribution: world Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 32 peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> Ah, the Merkur cars. Anyone ever hear of the XR4Ti or Scorpio cars? > >My boss has a Scorpio. Damned nice car. The killing of the XR4Ti's and Scorpio's was due to: 1) Bad marketing on Fords part 2) They did have a reputation for being unreliable cars in the price range they were being sold in. >> Didnt sell well in the US at all, were very unreliable according to CU. > >CU's ratings are heavily weighted towards bottom-of-the-line cars. Consumers Reports HATES ALL cars, and I wouldn't look at anything they published...One of the big-wigs at CU's car program was fired from Chrysler for being a "screw-off"...And knowing how many Screw-Off's Chrysler still has working for them, he must have been the screw-off of all screw-offs to get fired...I would believe what CU prints about VCR's, Toasters, Televisions, etc, but not cars... I would pick up a car magazine for a more objective view, or ConsumerGuide's auto series... -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) If I had a nickel for every time Elizabeth Taylor was married I would have $.35