<VV> Re: Italian cars ---No Corvair

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

It's partly because they pay you to scrap the old ones, partly because new 
ones have become very cheap recently, partly because the government swamps 
us the whole time with eco-propaganda saying that we should be driving new 
cars because old ones are 'polluting' (read: they get tax revenues on new 
ones but not on old one), and partly because they don't last 5 minutes (all 
those rubber cam belts)...

Cheers

Alan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron" <ronh at owt.com>
To: <Taruffi57 at aol.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Re: Italian cars ---No Corvair


> Throughout Europe you will notice that everyone has a new car.
> RonH
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Taruffi57 at aol.com>
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:19 AM
> Subject: <VV> Re: Italian cars ---No Corvair
>
>
>> In a message dated 6/29/2005 9:01:09 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> virtualvairs-request at corvair.org writes:
>>
>>>"You  know a country is in trouble when the best car they can buy is a
>> Fiat!"
>>
>> Well, you can buy a Smart Car there but only the  diesel
>>
>> I was in northern Italy 11 days this March and believe me, they have a
>> helluva lot more practical and wider choices of cars than we do.  Their 
>> cars
>> average being about 2/3 the size of what we drive, but since even diesel 
>> is  around
>> $4.25 gal., most newer cars are turbo diesels.  Our group had mostly 
>> Alfa
>> turbo diesel 4 drs. with 5 speed manuals.  I loved it and it wasn't 
>> slow.
>>
>> Italians are WAY better drivers than Americans too.  Yes, they  are
>> aggressive and will go around you - sometimes into oncoming traffic -  if 
>> you don't
>> "close-it-up" but they also do not get in the way in the left  lane. 
>> There is a
>> strong awareness of proper lane use.
>>
>> Most all cars on the roads are new or nearly new and it is a rare sight 
>> to
>> see something like an old Fiat 600 or an older Alfa.
>>
>> Joe Dunlap
>> Florida
>>
>>
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