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RE: OT: BMWs (was USB2 on Laptops?)


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  • Subject: RE: OT: BMWs (was USB2 on Laptops?)
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:22:05 -0000
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> But here's my problem with performance cars...when the Fiat=20
> 20V Turbo Coupe came along I got an extended test drive of=20
> it. Two minutes out of the showroom and onto a dual=20
> carriageway, 130mph and I had to back off I would have bought=20
> one but for a couple of niggles. It costs =A3220 a corner for=20
> rubber, it cost ridiculous amounts to service, the service=20
> intervals were short, the insurance company's employees would=20
> all have gotten a trip to the Bahamas for my premium alone=20
> and, the most important one, I would have been banged up for=20
> doing silly speeds after three weeks:-)

This is why I got shot of the 200SX - 12 points didn't bode well for
continued ownership of licence!
=20
> As for the image presented by the car, well I don't really=20
> give a toss anymore.

Having met you I can understand why... ;-)

Phil

> (who finally has a clean licence after nearly 10 years of points)

(3 points left after slight "lapse" 15 months ago...)




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