Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Seth, To my knowledge, GM hasn't made a LaSalle in sixty or seventy years. The one I well remember was a roadster from around 1937. As you would expect, it belonged to a prosperous lawyer in my hometown. He took his son and me to his rural cabin in an old pickup, but I never got a ride in the LaSalle. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Rosner" <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] un-believable - now off-topic and long-ish > Buick doesn't make a LaSalle; their two sedans are the Lucerne and the > LaCrosse. I suppose performance and ride are subjective matters but lounge > chair ride and wallowing suspension? as a sports car guy and for over 50 > years and former road racer, uh-uh. That said, you will adore the CTS, a > world-class car. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <grduprey@mchsi.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 8:28 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] un-believable - now off-topic and long-ish > > > > > Seth, > > > The Buick LaSalle is a current model, which we drove a year ago, and the > ride and performance was exactly as I described it. I wish it were not, > same ride as my mom's 1992 Buick. > > > I am interested in the new Caddy CTS, which I will go and try as soon as > the temperature gets above 0 F sometime next week, it is -5 F here today. > > > Gene -------------- Original message from "Seth Rosner" > <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com>: -------------- > > >> Gene, to write thus, you cannot have driven a Buick in a good many years. >> >> Same problem with folks in Congress who prate about how GM, Ford and >> Chrysler are building terrible cars. They just don't know. Respectfully, >> it's one thing not to know and to be silent, quite another not to know >> and >> speak so erroneously. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: >> To: "Leica Users Group" >> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2008 4:53 PM >> Subject: Re: [Leica] un-believable - now off-topic and long-ish >> >> >> >> >> Personally China can have all the Buicks they want, horrible driving >> cars. >> Great if you want a lounge chair ride, and a wallowing suspension. >> >> >> Gene -------------- Original message from Joseph Yao >> : -------------- >> >> >> > Buick may be the best-selling foreign brand in China, but many of them >> > are >> > not the real Buick you get in the US - they are merely rebadged Korean >> > cars. >> > Check out the Excelle and GL8 series: >> > >> > http://www.buick.com.cn >> > >> > >> > >> > On 12/21/08 10:36 PM, "Seth Rosner" wrote: >> > >> > > Correct, Gene; and Nathan, were you aware that in 2008 GM has sold >> > > more >> > > cars >> > > in the United States than Toyota? Over a million more? And that Buick >> > > is >> > > the >> > > biggest-selling foreign brand in China? >> > > >> > > Seth >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Leica Users Group. >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >> Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.19/1859 - Release Date: >> 12/20/2008 >> 2:34 PM >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.19/1860 - Release Date: > 12/21/2008 3:08 PM > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >