Re: Mini Cooper fails to find niche; Beetle/Cruiser win sales race

You're talking to a guy who had to drive a '74 Mercury Comet (6 cylinder

4-door) his first 2 months on campus as a college freshman. I can take anything. Would I go out and LOOK for an Accord to drive? Not if a step up... say a 74 Comet 6 cylinder... was available instead :-D

Not defining, no. Revealing to others, yes.

If you haven't known any then you're lucky. :)

Mike's just an idiot, period. He has yet to back up a claim beyond pointing to the NHTSA website or telling you to go look in the library.

How stupid. He could have just bought some Porche keys and put them on his ring and got the same effect.

Ted

Yeah, but unless he stuck a Porsche decal on his car he'd lose them as he walked over to it, wouldn't he?

...................The Corvette has survived for just about fifty years now in a small niche. The Mini isn't that much more of a "mass-market car" than the 'vette and may well prove to have a lot more potential customers. Doomed? BMW has been adept over the years at finding what sells to special niches of potential buyers and then giving it to them. Rolls Royce is another example of their strategy of marketing to a 'small niche'. They don't seem to be too worried about winning some imaginary 'sales race' with the larger manufacturers. When has anyone with half a clue traded their 328 or 540 in for a GrandAm or Monte Carlo?

...............As for Oldsmobile, GM is killing it because their marketing people finally figured out that it was mostly competing with other divisions of GM and failing to draw any customers into Oldsmobile's showrooms that weren't already inclined to buy from GM regardless of what brand. The same thing happened to Plymouth.........Voyager........Caravan.........Chrysler Town & Country.............who cares?

"The Porsche is in the shop, so I'm in the Cavalier tonight."

Marc For email, remove the first "y" of "whineryy"

I smell a 442 in his future. :)

Cherry showroom example, of course. Make a nice present to him. (hint hint)

Cavalier?!?! I'm in the VAN, man! (complete with waterbed in the back) ;-)

Ted

Bumper sticker for the Porsche: "My other car is a Cavalier"?

..............By the time I finish putting three brats through college, he'll be an octogenarian!

....................I have been keeping an eye out for an early ('49 or '50) Futuramic. He'd get a big kick out of finding one of those sitting in his driveway.

"Can we build one for you?"

I miss those cars. And the GSX, Roadrunner, Charger, Torino...

I have a "short list" for my next car (short list in quotes because it is about 20 cars long, though many are very specific year/trim combos that are nearly nonexistent). A used 911 is on it. If I get one, I'm going to put my first bumper sticker ever on a car.

"My other car is a Porsche"

Though, when I've told others of this desire, they don't get it.

Marc For email, remove the first "y" of "whineryy"

Better yet, cross out other by writing in big letters ONLY. ;)

Consider the AREA, it's more than San Francisco proper. We have a wide range of folks here, many 'Greens' but lots of Conservatives too, and most every body else (the bulk of em) is in the middle.

We have every thing here from those Electrified Golf Carts for the street to Big ol Gas Guzzling Tanks for the street (Hummer 1s & 2s).

Back to the Mini. Lots of em on the road around here. Lots.

Lots of Mustangs, lots of New Beetles, lots of Volvos, Lots of Escalades (sp), etc., etc.

TBerk

allowed

Your cluelessness apparently knows no bounds.

I'm with Jan on this one.

Delete Air Cooled from the address line.

What's the beef?

TBerk

LOL.

Who is forcing you to read the thread?

As long as you're "with Jan on this one," maybe you can answer a VERY pressing question:

When and where was the rule regarding crossposting not being allowed "in Usenet" made?

Thanks!