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From: alien@gcc-bill.ARPA (Alien Wells)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Re: New car shopping--my criteria an
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Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 11:09:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 11:09:29 1985
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>> By the way: if more people could suppress their bias towards japanese cars,
>> they would venture up to their local Volkswagen dealers and check out the new
>> Golfs and Jettas....

And don't fall for the trap of thinking of the Golf as a new model of car.  
When I lived in W. Germany (1975-6) they were making Golfs, it is just the name
they use for the Rabbit in Germany (they have a smaller version called the 
'Polo').  The change from Rabbit to Golf is no more significant than the change
from Datsun to Nissan (except Nissan thought they had more of a quality image
to lose from Datsun than VW had to lose from the Rabbit).

If you insist on thinking of the Golf as a totally redesigned, new model of
car, then you should overcome your bias toward german cars and venture up to
your local Honda dealers and check out the new Civics, Accords, and Preludes.
Thier redesign was much more major, and they don't feel they have to change
the name because the last version was so bad.

					Alien