Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.auto,net.consumers Subject: Re: AMC/RENAULT Alliance Message-ID: <560@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 21:48:36 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.560 Posted: Mon Mar 10 21:48:36 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Mar-86 22:51:40 EST References: <329@edsel.UUCP> <1826@hammer.UUCP> <1645@mtgzy.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 40 Xref: watmath net.auto:9743 net.consumers:4491 In article <1645@mtgzy.UUCP> seb@mtgzy.UUCP writes: > I present two more datapoints. I have a friend who owns an Alliance >and my sister owns an Escort (the same car with a different body). >Both of them adore their cars. My friend has had her Alliance for 2.5 >years. My sister has had her Escort for 2 years. They have not had any >problems with their cars at all (except for my mother running into >my sister's car in the driveway). > >Sharon Badian Before I go any further, I think you should know that your sister owns an ENCORE, not an Escort. Again: ENCORE, as in Alliance-Without-A-Trunk, as opposed to Escort, an excessively popular car/an excessively popular law-enforcement-evasion accessory. How dare you confuse a Renault with a Real Ford/Cincinnati Microwave product. :-) Oh, right, my own datapoints. Well, I've only looked closely at two Alliances; the first had incredibly poor fit and finish (we're talking misaligned door panels here, folks) and the second, well, although there wasn't anything intrinsically wrong with it, it could give the family Dodge Aries a run-for-the-money for `blah car of the year' award. I won't go into details, but suffice it to say that two friends of mine discovered empirically that the sheetmetal used in the Alliance/Encore is not even remotely a match for the sheetmetal used in the Olds Firenza, one of its competitors. To paraphrase a great Madison Avenue philosopher, "better get Maaco..." -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu ARPA n. [acronym for Advanced Research Projects Agency.] An agency of the U.S. Department of Defense established in 1968 to test its defenses against misuse and piracy in the large-scale distributed processing environment. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary"