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Old 07-22-2009, 05:26 PM   #41 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by robchalmers View Post
...in the 60/70s we put our fingers in our ears and kept making crap- even when the Germans and Japanese took over we still screwed it up LEARN FROM US change, and other peoples ideas can be good!
Huh? In the '50s and '60s the British built the best cars in the world - MG, Austin-Healey, Sunbeam, Triumph, Jaguar... Sure, the reliability could have been improved (All Hail, Lucas, Lord of Darkness!), but they were no worse than American cars of the period. The problem is not that you guys didn't change, but that you changed the wrong things. You took out the single quality that sold those cars, the fact that they were an incredible amount of fun to drive (which American cars never had), and now all you have left is Lotus.

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