Re: Saw a 380 police sedan today

[Ext User(Kev)]

DJ wrote:

> "Noddy" <dg4163@(nospam)dodo.com.au> wrote in message
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>>"DJ" <mrjay1@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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>>
>>>Nah..no real proof as yet Noddy, just said that as I know you are so Anti
>>>Mitsubishi haha
>>
>>I'm not really.
>>
>>I've said here a number of times that their commercial stuff can be quite
>>good, and I owned a Mistu Express that served me *very* well as an on site
>>service van that did over 400,000km's on it's original clutch and it never
>>gave me a problem. Similarly, my old man who was in the building trade had
>>a few of them that gave him equally good reliable service.
>>
>>I don't have anything against Mitsubishi, and I don't think their cars are
>>*bad* (well, except for the Lancer which is a fucking *horrible* heap of
>>shit), I just don't think their cars are *brilliant* like you and a few
>>other idiots do.
>>
>>
>>>--
>>
>>Regards,
>>Noddy.
>>Well I beleive I'm many things but don't consider idiot to be one of them,
>>and I've never said that the Mitsubishi product was *brilliant* , all I've
>>tried to point out that of all the bagging the Magnas and 380's have had, I
>>beleive have been somewhat unwarranted and as I've explained before, My
>>parents and I have owned many of their cars over the past yrs and have had
>>nothing but a great service from these cars and have found all the above to
>>be relatively problem free so I guess, like anyone who is alive, can only
>>speak from experience of a particular brand whether it'd be holden, ford or
>>otherwise, if you get a good chop, you keep buying from that shop.
>
>
> If I had the money, yeah sure, I'd be buying something fast and glamourous
> too but my motoring budget has never been able to aim that high...(go
> powerball), so I went an bought myself the best magna I could afford (cash)
> a TL AWD with 3 yrs warranty and only 56,000kms...goes nice and sticks to
> the road really well,I'm not a slow driver as you might think but I don't
> drive at stupid speeds either, I must keep my licence clean for my job.
>
> Anyway.....I still love my Magna...to us poor folk, it's a limo ok
>
> DJ
>
>


It's just a pity that it was the start of the Mitsubishy Ugly
and it's gotten worse
at least it has drive to the rear wheels as well

BTW I don't think there are many people here who say they are not a good
reliable car, they are just fucking ugly, FWD and way overstated by a
few loonies inhabiting this place

Kev

[Ext User(DJ)]

"Kev" <kevcat@optunet.com.au> wrote in message
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> DJ wrote:
>
>> "Noddy" <dg4163@(nospam)dodo.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:465e4465$0$90645$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net...
>>
>>>"DJ" <mrjay1@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
>>>news:465e39c7$0$21505$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Nah..no real proof as yet Noddy, just said that as I know you are so
>>>>Anti Mitsubishi haha
>>>
>>>I'm not really.
>>>
>>>I've said here a number of times that their commercial stuff can be quite
>>>good, and I owned a Mistu Express that served me *very* well as an on
>>>site service van that did over 400,000km's on it's original clutch and it
>>>never gave me a problem. Similarly, my old man who was in the building
>>>trade had a few of them that gave him equally good reliable service.
>>>
>>>I don't have anything against Mitsubishi, and I don't think their cars
>>>are *bad* (well, except for the Lancer which is a fucking *horrible* heap
>>>of shit), I just don't think their cars are *brilliant* like you and a
>>>few other idiots do.
>>>
>>>
>>>>--
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Noddy.
>>>Well I beleive I'm many things but don't consider idiot to be one of
>>>them, and I've never said that the Mitsubishi product was *brilliant* ,
>>>all I've tried to point out that of all the bagging the Magnas and 380's
>>>have had, I beleive have been somewhat unwarranted and as I've explained
>>>before, My parents and I have owned many of their cars over the past yrs
>>>and have had nothing but a great service from these cars and have found
>>>all the above to be relatively problem free so I guess, like anyone who
>>>is alive, can only speak from experience of a particular brand whether
>>>it'd be holden, ford or otherwise, if you get a good chop, you keep
>>>buying from that shop.
>>
>>
>> If I had the money, yeah sure, I'd be buying something fast and
>> glamourous too but my motoring budget has never been able to aim that
>> high...(go powerball), so I went an bought myself the best magna I could
>> afford (cash) a TL AWD with 3 yrs warranty and only 56,000kms...goes nice
>> and sticks to the road really well,I'm not a slow driver as you might
>> think but I don't drive at stupid speeds either, I must keep my licence
>> clean for my job.
>>
>> Anyway.....I still love my Magna...to us poor folk, it's a limo ok
>>
>> DJ
>
>
> It's just a pity that it was the start of the Mitsubishy Ugly
> and it's gotten worse
> at least it has drive to the rear wheels as well
>
> BTW I don't think there are many people here who say they are not a good
> reliable car, they are just fucking ugly, FWD and way overstated by a few
> loonies inhabiting this place
>
> Kev

Yeah, I can understand that many would find them ugly and I'll admit I was
one of those in the beginning, but for some reason, it kinda grew on me.
It was a very bold design based on a Euro look that I think was over
designed and consequently, the guy who designed it was sacked from
Mitsubishi.
I think however, if the car is not a stock standard front drive ES but one
of the optioned up models like mine with spoked mags and being AWD (for some
reason they look a bit classier than the standard ES, LS decals on the rear
and side guards) and with the darker tinted windows, it kinda distracts a
bit from the frontal ugliness.
Actually from some angles it doesn't look so bad at the front,just needs to
become accustomed to it but I do understand people being against it but I
have seen a lot uglier cars than the TL/TW design. In fact I might even go
as far as to say the TL/TW Magna front has more character than the current
380 which is a bit plain I feel as they tried to tone it down a bit.

Cheers

DJ

[Ext User(Noddy)]

"Kev" <kevcat@optunet.com.au> wrote in message
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> BTW I don't think there are many people here who say they are not a good
> reliable car, they are just fucking ugly, FWD and way overstated by a few
> loonies inhabiting this place

Pretty much it in a nutshell right there.

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Regards,
Noddy.

[Ext User(Noddy)]

"DJ" <mrjay1@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> Yeah, I can understand that many would find them ugly and I'll admit I was
> one of those in the beginning, but for some reason, it kinda grew on me.

Kinda like severe facial burns.

If you're stuck with the scars, you kinda have to put up with looking at it
in the mirror each day.

> It was a very bold design based on a Euro look that I think was over
> designed and consequently, the guy who designed it was sacked from
> Mitsubishi.

The amazingly ridiculous part about all that, apart from the fact that
everyone blamed him at the time, was that *no one* in authority at
Mitsubishi stood back and looked at the proposals and said "Jesus that's
fucking ugly".

I cannot for the life of me believe that someone in charge of a car company
(well, Mitsubishi Australia anyway :) could look at that fucking abortion of
a nose job on the last Magna and think there'd be more than ten people in
the country who were not legally blind that would like it.

Blaming the designer was bullshit. The person who ultimately approved it for
production should have been sumarily executed.

> I think however, if the car is not a stock standard front drive ES but one
> of the optioned up models like mine with spoked mags and being AWD (for
> some reason they look a bit classier than the standard ES, LS decals on
> the rear and side guards) and with the darker tinted windows, it kinda
> distracts a bit from the frontal ugliness.

Only someone who owns one could suggest that.

To the rest of us, a 30 megatonne nuclear blast couldn't detract from it in
any way :)

> Actually from some angles it doesn't look so bad at the front

You need your eyes checked. It's fucking *appalling*.

> just needs to become accustomed to it but I do understand people being
> against it but I have seen a lot uglier cars than the TL/TW design.

Oh yeah? Like what?

> In fact I might even go as far as to say the TL/TW Magna front has more
> character than the current 380 which is a bit plain I feel as they tried
> to tone it down a bit.

That's exactly what they did.

Sales of the Magna (which were never brilliant) dropped of dramatically when
the last ugly duckling arrived, and they couldn't wait to get the 380 out to
get away from it. They even dropped the "Magna" name to distance themselves
from the debacle of the last Magna model.

Still, the irony of course is that the stupid cunts thought a rehash of a
tired old unpopular American car would make Australian buyers piss their
pants in excitement, but it resulted in the embarrassing situation of
selling less 380's than they did the last ugly Magna that they were
desperately trying to get away from.

Still, you've got to give MMAL's management team credit where it's due. If
you actually *tried* to run a car company that poorly it'd probably be quite
hard to do :)

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Regards,
Noddy.

[Ext User(DJ)]

C'mon....where the fuck are all the Mitsubishi lovers out there that Noddy
refers to as 'idiots' morons and the like....? C'mon guys, i need help
here..I'm drowning in a sea of magna haters aaaaaaagggghhhhh!!! LMFAO

DJ

[Ext User(Dan---)]

On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:15:53 +1000, Kev PCM code reading says:


>
> BTW I don't think there are many people here who say they are not a good
> reliable car, they are just fucking ugly, FWD and way overstated by a
> few loonies inhabiting this place

Pretty much spot on there.


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Regards
Dan

[Ext User(Dan---)]

On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 02:43:59 +1000, Noddy PCM code reading says:


>
> Still, you've got to give MMAL's management team credit where it's due. If
> you actually *tried* to run a car company that poorly it'd probably be quite
> hard to do :)

And some people worship this company.
I'd say thank fuck for Subaru being available in this country. :-)


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Regards
Dan

[Ext User(Andy)]

Noddy wrote:
> "DJ" <mrjay1@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
> news:46619136$0$15974$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
>
>> Yeah, I can understand that many would find them ugly and I'll admit I was
>> one of those in the beginning, but for some reason, it kinda grew on me.
>
> Kinda like severe facial burns.
>
> If you're stuck with the scars, you kinda have to put up with looking at it
> in the mirror each day.


Ouch...


>> just needs to become accustomed to it but I do understand people being
>> against it but I have seen a lot uglier cars than the TL/TW design.
>
> Oh yeah? Like what?


This one? (I should be careful, MMAL might get 'ideas'...)

http://tinyurl.com/2uow97


Cheers,
Andy.

[Ext User(Dan---)]

On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:24:47 +1000, Andy PCM code reading says:


>
> This one? (I should be careful, MMAL might get 'ideas'...)
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2uow97

Fucking improvement really.
:-)

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Dan