[ROVERNET - UK] Who is Mercedes kidding?

[Paul Smith]

Ummm what was a Range Rover then?
It set the benchmark for 10 years minimum.

-----Original Message-----
From: peter king [mailto:peter at king-co.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 1 March 2005 9:22 am
To: rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com
Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Who is Mercedes kidding?


I think the keyword is "luxury". My dad had one of the first Land Rovers
available in Vermont in the mid 60's--exotic with it's crank-up telephone
mounted up front, but a bit like riding a flexible flyer down a rock-hard
slope. A spinal awakening. My head bounced off the hard roof more times than
I would have liked.

pk


on 2/28/05 5:03 PM, Paul Smith at Paul.Smith at auroraenergy.com.au wrote:

> I saw a wonderful documentary on SUV rollover deaths in USA (Ford Explorer
> and Firestone tyres etc).
> It started out by quoting the Ford people saying Noone had produced luxury
> 4wds until 1979 when FORD tried something New and Radical and Wonderful
> etc... (and made them unsafe...)
> 
> Boy they can lie.
> 
> PVS
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter king [mailto:peter at king-co.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 March 2005 8:57 am
> To: rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com
> Subject: [ROVERNET - UK] Who is Mercedes kidding?
> 
> 
> I recently saw Mercedes' ad touting the CLS500 as "The WORLD'S FIRST
4-door
> coupe"... Maybe they chose not to count the Rover P5 Coupé because it was
so
> heavenly? 
> 
> pk
> 
> 
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