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Rooney
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Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:27 pm Post subject:
Nice Nissans |
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There are some nice looking Nissans around at the moment - distinctive
too. Don't you agree?
The new Micra is froggy but cool, and way better than the average,
bland small car. The Almera's not bad either. the primera looks very
sophisticated, while the Terrano and X Trail stand out among the 4x4
crowd.
Character - that's what they've all got!
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Peter Hill
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Sun Dec 12, 2004 5:41 am Post subject:
Re: Nice Nissans |
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On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 18:27:57 +0000, Rooney <pvrooney@aol.com> wrote:
| Quote: | There are some nice looking Nissans around at the moment - distinctive
too. Don't you agree?
The new Micra is froggy but cool, and way better than the average,
bland small car. The Almera's not bad either. the primera looks very
sophisticated, while the Terrano and X Trail stand out among the 4x4
crowd.
Character - that's what they've all got!
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So which one is stylish enough to be the last car you ever buy. Which
one is the pinnacle of Nissan's motor making history? Never to be
surpassed?
Sadly that day came and went over 10 years ago, before the western
worlds governments dictated how cars should look. They started nearly
30 years ago with federal impact bumpers, USA got the ball rolling to
make compact Euro and Jap cars look like shit, the domestic product
was sufficiently tank like to make it unnoticeable. For a few years
it worked really well, all the car makers stuck big ugly boxy black
things on the front and back of their cars. Then someone worked out
that the laws didn't actually insist they look the research prototype
and they could be recessed into the car and hidden under body colour
matched covers. Having failed at that attempt they had to come up
with something a bit more drastic. Side impact testing that dictated
cars had to be tall and slab sided with a high glass line was a good
one for starters. As that didn't really stuff the appearance up
enough (assuming you like WWII machine gun emplacements with slits for
windows) and some firms had started to show signs of being able to
engineer around it, they slapped on pedestrian impact testing to give
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Rooney
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Sun Dec 12, 2004 4:50 pm Post subject:
Re: Nice Nissans |
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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:02:46 +0000, Peter Hill
<peter.usenet1@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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So which one is stylish enough to be the last car you ever buy. Which
one is the pinnacle of Nissan's motor making history? Never to be
surpassed?
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Never say never.
| Quote: | Sadly that day came and went over 10 years ago, before the western
worlds governments dictated how cars should look.
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Yet Nissan has currently got models that don't look like everyone
else's.
| Quote: | They started nearly
30 years ago with federal impact bumpers, USA got the ball rolling to
make compact Euro and Jap cars look like shit, the domestic product
was sufficiently tank like to make it unnoticeable. For a few years
it worked really well, all the car makers stuck big ugly boxy black
things on the front and back of their cars. Then someone worked out
that the laws didn't actually insist they look the research prototype
and they could be recessed into the car and hidden under body colour
matched covers. Having failed at that attempt they had to come up
with something a bit more drastic. Side impact testing that dictated
cars had to be tall and slab sided with a high glass line was a good
one for starters. As that didn't really stuff the appearance up
enough (assuming you like WWII machine gun emplacements with slits for
windows) and some firms had started to show signs of being able to
engineer around it, they slapped on pedestrian impact testing to give
cars a big flat blunt ugly snout.
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Not seen the Roadster?
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Peter Hill
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Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:56 am Post subject:
Re: Nice Nissans |
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On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:50:07 +0000, Rooney <pvrooney@aol.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Not seen the Roadster?
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Not in the UK yet and Nissan don't appear to want to sell any in the
UK. I see RX8's everywhere 2 or 3 a day but very few Z's maybe 1 a
month. |
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Rooney
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Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:01 am Post subject:
Re: Nice Nissans |
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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:56:02 +0000, Peter Hill
<peter.usenet1@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:50:07 +0000, Rooney <pvrooney@aol.com> wrote:
Not seen the Roadster?
Not in the UK yet and Nissan don't appear to want to sell any in the
UK. I see RX8's everywhere 2 or 3 a day but very few Z's maybe 1 a
month.
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I've not seen one in the flesh yet, but the pictures look superb. But
I like the whole range - which is more than I can say for any other
mass producer. I reckon they've got some good people in their design
team at the moment. Some good prices to be had too.
What's yours - I presume you have a Nissan?
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