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- From: Winfried.Krueger@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Winfried Krueger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: VW (was: Re: Amiga 1200)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.113210.17773@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 11:26:48 GMT
- References: <1ctmi9INNaiu@aludra.usc.edu> <36616@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Sender: news@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE
- Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
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- daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
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- >In article <1ctmi9INNaiu@aludra.usc.edu> wdao@aludra.usc.edu (Walter Dao) writes:
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- >>I just got the GIF pic of the a1200 ...
- >>What an uglyness !!!
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- >>ps : hell ! nobody would buy Ferraris if they looked like VW .
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- >But Ferrari sells maybe a thousand cars a year. VolksWagon sells millions
- >(or at least they did at their prime, don't know these days). Actually,
- >VW is a good analogy, as they're about the only major car company that
- >still ignores the look of their sheet metal, now that Toyota has finally
- >come around. The "flat" machine is a proven way to make the lowest cost
- >low end machine. The look has to be secondary to the price.
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- VW is still selling millions of cars, as far as I recall
- they are tho most successful car vendor here in Europe. In the meantime
- they changed to pay attention to the look of their products...
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- >--
- >Dave Haynie / Commodore Technology, High-End Amiga Systems Design (cool stuff)
- > "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh BIX: hazy
- >If you think "George Bush" is the answer, you just don't understand the question
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- winnie.
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