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A Chrysler by any other name is still a Chrysler 850 1996

posted by  Ken Temkin on  Wed Jan 9 02:52 CST 2002
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Bravo! Well put!

Detroit is good at marketing, and that's it.

I am not as enamored with my 850 as you might be, but it is orders-of-magnitude beyond anything Detroit has put out--even the vaunted Corvette, or Viper. Anyone can design a car that goes fast by putting a God-awful-sized, gas-guzzling engine in it. Anyone can design a car that handles reasonably when you put it an inch from the ground, make it 10-feet wide, has zero suspension travel, and uses tires which consume half the car's track.

A car is a complex compromise for use in many environments, not just the drag strip, or even the road-race track. Great cars are not the ones which are the best at one thing; they are the ones which are a haromony of superior functions.






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New Blown away by a 2003 Neon [850][1996]
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