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To: michael97123 who wrote (55053)	11/2/2001 5:18:52 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 70976

OT re Naz 2080 and "which SUV did you end up buying?" Looking at the charts was part of what went into the 2080 number. Looking at the % move that other bear rallies have done in this bear market, guessing that the September lows were an intermediate-term low, and expecting a long, long bear rally off that low. Also correlates, approximately, with where the Nas stalled in the rebound off the April bottom. I ended up buying (actually, ordering, they won't get it in till next month) a Subaru. AWD and studs ought to hold it to the road, at least at slow speeds. It has a low-set engine, and a low-enough center of gravity, that it doesn't require the SUV-rollover warning on the visor. Only 7.5" of clearance; when we get a heavy snow, she can drive my Expedition. (rant alert)...........I will never buy another American-made car. Just got the tires on my Ford Expedition changed, it took them till this summer to decide to recall the 17" tires, long after they recalled the 15-16" tires. When I called up the dealer, they said, "It's just a cosmetic recall, to soothe customer's anxiety, nothing really wrong with the tires. Oh, the recall ends in 2 weeks, we won't pay for it after that. And we don't have any replacement tires, you'll have to find them yourself. We'll reimburse you up to 130$/tire max, you pay the difference if you can't find a replacement that cheap." When I called tire stores around town, I couldn't find any that had any of the tires on Ford's recommended replacement list. And all the prices were over 130$/tire. I will never buy another American car, they have learned nothing from losing market share the last 20 years to the Japanese.