>When Americans used place names for cars, they picked place names with
>grit, so to speak. The Pontiac LeMans! Compare that to the Austin
>Cambridge or Somerset. Counties, for heaven's sake. ANYway, the name gap
>probably led to the british loss of US market share. What real man, given
>his choice of a Super Snipe or a Barracuda, would have thought twice.
>Nobody with any gonads, that's for sure.
I suppose Ford proved that with the Edsel. That and its, erm, interesting
front.
PaulH
73 Roadster (HD&H)
75 V8 (DD)
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