Klarinet Archive - Posting 001056.txt from 2000/03

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] Fw:
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:51:49 -0500

But nobody objects to Cadillac using the name "Sedan De Ville" for 50 years
on a whole lot of different cars.

At 12:59 PM 3/30/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Is an R13 that is made made today significantly different from one made in
>the 50's or not? If it is significantly different it isn't an R13. Maybe
>the Buffet made in the 50's wasn't an R13. They can't be different and be
>the same model. Period.
>
>Design evolution isn't a bad thing, but they should have honestly noted
>their changes i.e. R13-x or R13-y. However, it appears to me that Buffet
>is cynically playing the nostalgia card to the hilt.
>
>Ed Maurey
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>> Ed wrote:
>> >OK, Mark, but don't you agree that they apparently havn't made any real
>> improvements if they are now peddling a 1950's model. They are admitting
>> that their tinkering has been for naught.
>>
>> Heck no! Some people love '57 Chevys and '65 Vettes, and will pay big
>money for them, but real improvements have been made in automobiles since
>then. Some people enjoy the vintage stuff, for whatever reason. But to say
>the improvements were in vain? I don't think so.
>>
>> Mark C.
>>
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