[ROVERNET - UK] Who is Mercedes kidding?

[peter king]

No doubt. I never had the privilege of riding in one. My dad preferred the
hard road...Land Rover, Jeepster Commando, and a bucket of bolts called a
Mustang.

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

> 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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