this Brit does not like the honda insight
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AUinAustin
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and this is coming from a country that gave us such fine examples of automobiles like the Sterling or any number of sports cars that ran only when they thought about it. I had an MGA for almost ten years and loved it but I would never consider it the epitome of car design.
An MG is a fantastic car...if you are a mechanic with experience working on them. Otherwise, nah. Jags have horrible maintenance records as well.
This is not science or by any means conclusive but I had a part-time job parking cars for a spell when I was on the East Coast. I cannot think of any time I ever parked a Jag that the "service engine" light was not on. I think I would because it would have been so out of the ordinary.
This is not science or by any means conclusive but I had a part-time job parking cars for a spell when I was on the East Coast. I cannot think of any time I ever parked a Jag that the "service engine" light was not on. I think I would because it would have been so out of the ordinary.
accuratehorn
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His main complaint seems to be it doesn't wail at high RPM's like a '60's Ferrari Testarosa, well, that would be correct. Anyone from a nation which can't produce a car with an electric system where all components ever work at the same time from the birth to the death of the vehicle has little room to criticize another's offering.
GhostOfTomJoad
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Q: Why aren't there any British computer manufacturers?
A: They haven't figured out a way to make them leak oil yet.
A: They haven't figured out a way to make them leak oil yet.
accuratehorn
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You should look at the Sterling automobile, and I use the term automobile loosely, to find out everything you want to know about British cars. Of course, there aren't any running anymore, because they were constructed so poorly that the expense of keeping one running quickly covercame owners' reluctance to watch the vehicle crushed at a salvage yard.
The company purchased Acura Legend engines and transmissions, excellent powerplants. The engine has the Acura wiring harness for the engine, which is what a wiring harness should be, with Honda's snap lock plug at its termination. There, where a mating plug should connect it to the underhood harness going through the firewall, it a bowl of brightly colored spaghetti running in all directions. The wires are exposed, haphazard, and look like a game of pick up sticks.
The cars were shipped to this country, where it was found they didn't meet U.S. standards for something, safety or emissions. They sat in a large lot in Houston or Galveston for a couple of years while this was resolved. During this time the leather faded and so did some of the paint. It was all replaced at U.S. dealers.
The company neglected to tell the dealers the A/C units were shipped without refrigerant in them, so when the cars were fired up for the dealer checkout, thousands of compressors were damaged and eventually failed early.
That only scratches the surface. My employee was one of two techs factory trained on Sterlings in Austin at David McDavid. He could go on for an hour about additional problems they had.
The few times someone has brought one in, after he gets through honestly stating what is likely to be wrong, they never fix the car.
Don't tell me a Honda Insight is "biblically terrible." Look in the mirror, you driving on the wrong side of the road limey freak, and go out in your driveway and fix your Triumph motorcycle oil leaks which have sprouted up anew.
The company purchased Acura Legend engines and transmissions, excellent powerplants. The engine has the Acura wiring harness for the engine, which is what a wiring harness should be, with Honda's snap lock plug at its termination. There, where a mating plug should connect it to the underhood harness going through the firewall, it a bowl of brightly colored spaghetti running in all directions. The wires are exposed, haphazard, and look like a game of pick up sticks.
The cars were shipped to this country, where it was found they didn't meet U.S. standards for something, safety or emissions. They sat in a large lot in Houston or Galveston for a couple of years while this was resolved. During this time the leather faded and so did some of the paint. It was all replaced at U.S. dealers.
The company neglected to tell the dealers the A/C units were shipped without refrigerant in them, so when the cars were fired up for the dealer checkout, thousands of compressors were damaged and eventually failed early.
That only scratches the surface. My employee was one of two techs factory trained on Sterlings in Austin at David McDavid. He could go on for an hour about additional problems they had.
The few times someone has brought one in, after he gets through honestly stating what is likely to be wrong, they never fix the car.
Don't tell me a Honda Insight is "biblically terrible." Look in the mirror, you driving on the wrong side of the road limey freak, and go out in your driveway and fix your Triumph motorcycle oil leaks which have sprouted up anew.
washparkhorn
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accuratehorn
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Oh, I never heard of him. Maybe like a British Click and Clack, with a harder edge?
DigglerontheHoof
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Good God, it's like a post about Obama that turned into a Bush bashing thread.
He didn't say the British built fine automobiles, he said this particular Honda model sucks.
He didn't say the British built fine automobiles, he said this particular Honda model sucks.
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"[On the Alfa Romeo Brera] “Think of it as Angelina Jolie. You’ve heard she’s mad and eats nothing but wallpaper paste. But you would, wouldn’t you?”
“Aston Martin DB9 – that’s not a racecar, that’s pornography.”
On looking at a particularly ugly minivan...
“How many volts would you have to have pumped through your testicles, before you’d buy that ?"
“Usually, a Range Rover would be beaten away from the lights by a diesel powered wheelbarrow.”
“This is a Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that’s much to shout about. That’s like saying ‘Oh good, I’ve got syphilis, the best of the sexually transmitted diseases!’”
Praising an Aston Martin: I’d rather be in this than in Keira Knightly.
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