----- Original Message -----
From: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
To: "'Livia Haasper'" <wilivhaasper@sympatico.ca>;
<Spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 12:43 PM
Subject: RE: TR6 on Top Gear
> ...I just wonder why, if Spitfires are 'effeminate', so many 6 foot plus,
> 250 pound guys are driving them??...
>
> I agree - just reporting what the presenter said. Although, I would have
to
> agree with the presenter that in a direct comparison between Spitfire and
> TR6, the Spit looks delicate to the TR6's brute. But then a Jag E-type
(XKE
> to Americans) has more of a Spitfires delicacy than a TR6's brutishness,
and
> that's the most beautiful car ever (according to Enzo Ferrari, amongst
> others).
Ah, but he's italian, therefore a girl (in my interpretation of the Top Gear
world)
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