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No105_Archie

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  1. Farking bastages !! :grrr: .....how could he possibly be better than the superior Europeans........therefore he must be cheating ...The cycle racing aristocrats will then do anything to "prove" that.

    It's like in the early 60s the Euro rally aristocrats could not understand how Mini Coopers could possibly be beating the "superior" cars from France and Germany so they did evryting to try to prove that the Minis were "cheating" finally in 1966 ..after the minis took first second and third place in thge Monto Carlo rally...the Euros decided that the Mini headlamps did not dim in the right way ( they were left hand drive ) so therfore the Mnis were "cheating" and were disqualified....the French then 'won' the rally championship

    This stuff is BIG business in Europe and the "powers that be" don't like to be embarrased :angry:

  2. This is not surprising. The statistic that 70-% of GM vehicles are made outside of the US should not come as any surprise or issue at all. GM is quite big in Europe ( Opel, Vauxhall) and Australia ( Holden ) and South America. I would say that there are more Fords sold outside the US than inside as well. The Ford Focus and Ranger are built and sold all over the world. Fiat now own Chrysler and Tatta Motors or India owns Jaguar for heaven's sake.

    On the other side of the coin I have two cousins in Ohio ..one workds for Honda in a huge plant outside Urbana where thay build Hondas for the US and Japanese markets......yup the famous Honda "Japanese quality" is made in the US

    The disturbing bit about GM would be the partneship with the SAIC using US Gov't funds.

  3. Agreed with Og and Maine about the need to use overwhelming force and that war is never "nice".

    I also agree that Britain and the British people were for a time

    all that was left between liberty and tyranny.
    . There have been endless debates and alternate histories about what would have happened if England had "rolled over" to Hitler. No one will ever know how that would have played out.....but I do know this .......I thank God for the resolve and fortitude of Britain and the Commonwealth in those dark days.
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