<VV> tell the angus to shove it

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Chris,
    Right On!  Also the Corvair pioneered modern  turbocharging.  See my tech 
article in a recent issue of the Communique  called "The Corvair Was Right 
After All".  Even BMW and Honda are now  producing turbo cars so they can cut 
$$$ fuel use and still get plenty of  power.
    Frank "atmospheric pressure is only the beginning"  Burkhard  
 
In a message dated 7/2/2008 1:48:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
cfmann at yahoo.com writes:

frankly:

I feel angus' comments are not very fair  because:

1. the corvair was introduced as a small compact fuel  efficient car, long 
before the 70's gas crunch came, and certainly could have  been GM salvation in 
the 70's
2. the corvair proved that thinking outside  the box (from and engineering 
and styling point) could have been a very  lucrative for GM even today. How many 
Gm execs have been sleeping at the  wheel, keep pumping SUV's and Crossovers 
to the market when indeed the buying  public crys for fuel efficiency.
3. the corvair was an experiment in using  multiple body designs with the 
same mechanical makeup. GM is still  "experimenting" with standardized platform 
chassis and multiple "plug-n-play"  body styles. 40 years ahead of its time 
STILL.
4. how could the corvair be  such a fiasco when its suspension is essentially 
a standardized design even  today, and is STILL a derivative of what the 
Corvette had and STILL has to  this today!

heck, if gm had the guts to weather the storm back  then, the corvair would 
still be telling us how things SHOULD be! angus'  comments are groundless.

can anyone get angus' email address and let us  all tell him his comments are 
unjustified, 

the Corvair was not a  fiasco, gm management (at the time) and the media were 
the fiasco's.  

it only proves to show how slow domestic car and truck manufacturers  are 
slow to react to changing trendsand the general marketplace. I am not  surprised 
that we have not lost "the big three" yet!

chris  mann







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