"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Fri, 22 May 2015 10:36:58 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:


When visiting auto factories the correct fashion is to be driving
their product. Some of the engineers (not me!) had ****ed off the
secretary and she retaliated with flights and rental cars, so I
arrived at the GM plant in Flint in an AMC Pacer.

That's OK. Anything made by AMC far outclasses anything GM-made.
Check the visuals on Consumer Reports for nearly any year since they
started them. Honda's on top, GM is on the bottom.

I -truly- miss my old 1970 AMC Javelin.

I did like driving it, the trouble was that it looked like something a
French chef caught in a swamp.
http://content.time.com/time/special...658042,00.html

I hid it in the back of the parking lot, behind an equally offensive
(to GM, not me) Honda Civic.

Small, low-profit cars in general were BAD. In private Chevette was
pronounced Shove-it.

When foreign economy cars held 18% of the market they weren't worth
competing with. At 22% they became a national threat that demanded
goverrnment action.

-jsw