OT: Cheap cars (was: 1%...)

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Jul 30 20:37:49 2001

> About the only things that a Porsche and a VW have in common are
> ancestors that were designed by engineering teams led by the same
> individual. By that metric I've got a pen that's a cheap
> {Porsche, VW}. Or is the assertion that all four wheel vehicles
> with boxer motors Porsches (in which case Subaru is in for a surprise ;-))?

The engines in the VW 411, the early 70's VW type 2 (bus,pickup), and the
original Porsche 914, ...
are more similar than PC-DOS and MS-DOS.


BTW, when marketing parts for those engines, would it be better to call
those parts "for Porsche" or "for VW"?

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Mon Jul 30 2001 - 20:37:49 BST

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