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To: Burt Masnick who wrote (76419)	3/16/1999 9:55:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Burt, I remember spending a day in the summer of 1978 test driving various Japanese and American small cars. It was the first time I was buying my own car, so the memory is quite vivid. I drove Toyotas, Datsuns, Fords, and GMCs that day, and was thoroughly disappointed with all of them. At the end of the day I went to the Honda dealership. I was not considering buying a Honda because the cars were so small and looked like pieces of junk. It took about 5 seconds driving the Civic to recognize that the handling and acceleration were in a class well above the competition. The stickshift motion was smooth as silk. I bought the car on the spot at quite a savings over what I would have paid for a Pinto or a Datsun. About 2 or 3 years later Honda began introducing normal sized cars, and started the process of pushing their prices up. Scumbria

To: Burt Masnick who wrote (76419)	3/16/1999 2:23:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Respond to of 186894

Honda and demand Those dealers that were charging you above market prices were kicking back to get delivery. There was a major scandal over kickbacks made by dealers to assure they got allocation of models. My 76 CVCC lasted until 1989 and had 145K miles. Cause of death: brake failure (the brake pedal snapped off its mooring.) I remember that when I arrived at Bell Labs I was one of the few driving a Honda and when I left all the engineers had them. =========== People will buy a well designed product. K7 vs Intel???