Fiat/GM brings hope

[Howard and Pat Warren <warrenwood@domain.elided>]

As Bernie quoted:
"Fiat also hopes the deal will open the way for the company to market its 
luxury marques, Alfa Romeo and Lancia, in the United States."

This sounds like an opportunity... but here is the commercial to fear: Bob 
Segar's "Like A Rock" is playing, and the camera shows a newly-redesigned 
Alfa Spider playing on a wet road.  In slow motion the car spins, water 
flying everywhere.  Then the narrator speaks: "THE NEW 2005 ALFA ROMERO 
SPIDER, WITH THE CHEVY LT-5 SHORT BLOCK V-8 ENGINE!"

<shudder>

Howard K. Warren, Little Rock, AR
1984 GTV-6, "Falconi", 138k miles
1991 164L, "Peregrine", 68k miles
1991 164L, "GrayHawk", 78k miles (I take possession 3/1)

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