Re: alfa-digest V7 #1364

["Peter F." <cybertrance@domain.elided>]

That is only partially true.  Americans like to drive and buy so called 
"Driver's Cars".  But very few of them ever drive them hard.  It's kind of 
like the SUV syndrome.  How many of those do people use for sport or 
utility? (and remember girls: shopping is not a sport)



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>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 13:39:07 -0500 (EST)
>From: adoherty@domain.elided (Adam Doherty)
>Subject: American tastes
>
>As a follow-up to the "No Alfas in the US" topic: One of the issues that
>kept surfacing was the idea that US drivers can't/don't want to drive in
>a spirited fashion. In short, don't appreciate Drivers Cars and that's
>why Alfas are no longer sold here.... I had a
>small epiphany as I was taking my dinner last night in front of the
>television, as is customary for bachelors, something many of you have
>forgotten...and noticed yet another car commercial of someone in a
>something-or-other pasting a map up in thin-air. Then get back into their
>'driver's car' and drive into the maps twisty roads that we apparently
>lack in the US. It dawned on me that there are increasingly more of this
>type
>of advertisement, enough to give the impression that people actually
>like to
>drive instead of make the A--->B transition. Certainly the highly payed
>geniuses that dream up these ads have their fingers on the pulse/wallets
>of America, and realize that people really do like spirited driving etc
>etc. Consequently, there is a sizeable and profitable market for
>'Driver's Cars' in the US.
>If this is so, I expect to see an advertisement for 156s, 147 and the
>like shortly. Q.E.D.
>
>I plan to eat-in alone more often so I can have that
>new GTV....
>
>Adam
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