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- From: eliot@lanmola.engr.washington.edu (eliot)
- Subject: Re: NISSAN'S ALTIMA CHALLENGES ACCORD, TAURUS, CAMRY
- Message-ID: <Nov09.070510.21726@engr.washington.edu>
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- References: <69136@cup.portal.com> <1992Nov9.053231.23827@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:10:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.053231.23827@leland.Stanford.EDU> tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen) writes:
- >> As a performance car, some might find Altima lacking. They could
- >>also dispute Nissan's claim that its 2.4-liter, four-cylinder engine
- >>matches a V-6. One Honda driver who sampled the Altima resorted to stealing
- >>Lloyd Bentsen's line: ``This car is no Honda Accord.''
-
- >oh, sure, and i bet the honda driver went on to brag about how
- >his V-6 accord could show its heels to an M5.
-
- while the altima could be better than the accord in some departments,
- there's no way that 2.4 liter bag o' nails could ever be even a remote
- match for honda's balance shafted 2.2, let alone anybody's v6. all
- the major competitorsa in that category (camry, taurus, accord) have
- either v6 engines or balance shaft 4s.. except nissan. looks like a
- major miss as far as i'm concerned. it is like trying to sell an X
- windows software product that's written in fortran.
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- eliot
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