Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/04

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Subject: [Leica] Car Prices
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat Jun 4 00:51:16 2005

On 6/4/05 12:27 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com> typed:

> Hi Mike,
> I think different cars appeal to different people. One thing I have
> noticed, as a long time Merc owner, is that Mercedes have had to
> lower quality to keep their prices competitive with other brands,
> some of which have gained a good reputation by marketing despite
> being very cheaply made.
> 
> Another point about gearboxes. The Merc cars do not particularly suit
> manual gearboxes, they have foot parking brakes and their latest auto
> 'boxes give away no performance and little economy to the manuals.
> BMW's OTOH are much better as manuals, firstly it suits a sporty car
> well second the BMW autos kill the performance and economy.
> Frank

Frank I'm amazed you go for Merc over BMW am I the only one?!

Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/





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