Bill,
I am so with you on the power windows, when I was thinking my 15 year old
Saturn wagon wouldn't make it through the summer I started pricing cars of
similar design, and there were no dealers selling new cars with hand crank
windows. So I got frustrated and looked at all the cars at all the dealers
and again no hand crank windows on new cars. I decided to go for a 3rd
transmission and keep my favorite 1st & maybe last new car.
What is with the auto industry why aren't any of them making cars with crank
windows I just don't get it.
Lin
PS Yea ditto Jim, not only banks aren't giving car loans how about people
are at the edge of their seats trying to keep their jobs and not buying new
cars for fear of no job, food & shelter on their minds.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Bill L <pythias@pacifier.com> wrote:
> Hello Ron,
>
> I went to the Portland (OR) Auto Show at the beginning of the month.
> Much
> is as you say, much more subdued than past years. Fewer displays,
> smaller
> displays, fewer attendees.
>
> The biggest crowds were around the Chevrolet stand. They had both the
> new
> Camaro and the 'Vette ZR1.
>
> Also as you say, its not just the domestic auto makers. If one looks at
> the
> stats, Mercedes sales off over 30%, Toyota off over 30%, Honda off
> nearly
> 30%, BMW, Saab, nearly every auto company in the developed world is
> suffering big time.
>
> Oddly enough, even the "economy" cars,--Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris, Nissan
> Versa, Chevy Aveo, Kia Rio, right down the line ALL have electric
> windows!!
> Not only does that mean that they weigh more than they need to, with
> all
> the associated ills that brings, the windows will eventually quit
> working.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Bill L. mailto:pythias@pacifier.com
>
> '66 Sprite MKIII HAN8L49403 "the red thing"
>
> The days of the digital watch are numbered
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