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I wouldn't get too excited just yet. Concept cars are designed to be =20
edgy. Production cars are designed to the lowest common denominator. No=
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telling what it would like when it hits the showroom. Better I hope.
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But, it if leads to a decent two seater sports car.... well, you take the =
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good with the bad.
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In a message dated 5/30/2014 8:20:16 P.M. Central Daylight Time, =20
bachldrs@comcast.net writes:
Amen to that, brother! At best, it looks like a clinically obese B/GT,=20
and that only because in the midst of all the bulging fat, there is a '73-=
74=20
grill sort-of stuffed in there between corpulent cheeks. Absolutely=20
hideous! But of course, America is so desperate for another SUV that it wi=
ll =20
spontaneously sell like hotcakes, right? =20
NOT!!!!!
Allen
PS: Now an MG-badged Solstice... that might lead to something - and since =
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SAIC owns the rights to both MG and Pontiac (as well as Saturn), it's a rea=
l=20
possibility. There's only one other two-seater sportscar available on =20
the American market right now: the Miatta. That's an easy market to compe=
te=20
in, and once there's some jazzy press about how well this new MG-stice =20
performs, then maybe a few people will come into the showrooms to look at o=
ne, =20
and then drive out in one of those gross pigs wallowing in its excess =20
sheet-metal. Speaking of showrooms, how do the Chinese acquire a string of =
=20
those? Do they expand the Chinese restaurants?=20
On May 28, 2014, at 11:37 PM, Steve wrote:
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Try as they might, this isn=E2=80=99t even close. Maybe with a bottle of =
cheap=20
red wine (and I don=E2=80=99t even like red wine), make that two bottles, I=
might=20
sort of recognize the grille as being somewhat MG like . . .=20
=20
give it up
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http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1092347_mg-eyes-new-sports-car-u-s-retur=
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compete in, and once there's some jazzy press about how well this new MG-=
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