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11-06-2003, 03:55 PM

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Los Angeles Times xB article

i thought this was a pretty good article on the xB:

http://www.latimes.com/classified/au...autos-highway1

what do you think?

11-06-2003, 04:29 PM

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Re: Los Angeles Times xB article

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i thought this was a pretty good article on the xB:

http://www.latimes.com/classified/au...autos-highway1

what do you think?

Well, The guy was certainly seduced by the hype! He did, however note the xB's rather pedestrian origins as a practical Japanese-market "box car".

11-07-2003, 12:02 AM

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This car is aimed squarely at the most subversive subset of Gen-Y, trendsetters who are abandoning the sport compact movement as it goes mainstream, a la "The Fast and the Furious."

Dude... Why do they always jumble the cultural pnenamenon togethrer just because it came out around the same time? Who digs FaF in this forum? Probably very few.

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because the car is so narrow and the sides are so high, it's initially hard to judge where the curb is when parking. The first few times I parked, I was a foot or more away.

Translates to... "I am a car journalist, but I don't know how to drive one".

11-07-2003, 12:06 AM

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i think he meant we are the people abandoning the sport compact market because of the fnf effect.

11-07-2003, 01:39 AM

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i think he meant we are the people abandoning the sport compact market because of the fnf effect.

that is what i thought.....

we got the xB effect

11-07-2003, 02:16 AM

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OH my bad!!!

Ha ha ha! I am at work. So I really skim through articles. I just read so many articles about their speculations on young car buyers who are influenced by FnF.

Totally my bad for assuming the same here.