On 15 Jul 2003 at 12:04, George Huffaker wrote:
> ...what Dave describes below that Guiness is doing is exactly what
> Triumph did with their cars. ...
> ...just enjoy it and quit whinging and knocking American beers
> like a bunch of fecking Euro-wannabes. ;-)
Nice rant, George! Interesting analogy of Guiness to Triumph. I'd
like to offer a personal experience in counterpoint. During my last
two years in college I spent many a weekend evening at a local eatery
where two (or more) of us friends would share a large house special
pizza (with anchovies) and we'd each consume one or two bottles of
Lowenbrau Dark. Shortly after I graduated, Miller began producing
Lowenbrau, both dark and Pilsner, in the US. With my first taste of
the "new and improved" Lowenbrau, I *knew* it wasn't the same, not
even close to the original. I tried it once or twice again with the
hope that they just hadn't gotten the recipe down yet. Nope. It got
worse, and has never been the same as the original. I stopped
drinking it. It had nothing to do with being a Euro-wannabe, nor a
beer snob. I just didn't like the stuff!
In contrast, it never seemed to me that Triumph ever intentionally
toned down their suspensions to match the "conventional" American
concept of what a car should be. If anything, the cars they exported
to the US had rather more character than one might have expected.
Indeed the Stag, meant to be a yuppie's sportscar before the word
came into being, was a failure (though for technical reasons,
mostly). Of course, others with more awareness than my limited
supply may dispute those observations.
Just my $.007.
--
Jim Muller
jimmuller@pop.rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+
--
Jim Muller
jimmuller@pop.rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+
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