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["Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

Title: Message

I love the name of the vehicle that this monstrosity is based on: the Chevrolet Avalanche. Who in their right mind would want to name a vehicle after a natural disaster?? Then again, after being rear-ended by one of those beasts at, say, 50 mph, your car will look like it has been hit by an avalanche, so maybe that name isn't so far fetched? Or maybe they named it like that since driving it off road might have a similar environmental impact as being buried by an, ahem, avalanche.

 

Sometimes I wonder what, or if, product planners are thinking...

 

My $0.02 worth...

 

- Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Flint [mailto:kflint AT buildscape.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:54 PM
To: InterNetWorkers
Subject: [internetworkers] speaking of large ridiculous vehicles...

Here's Cadillac's most recent entry into the large truck/small planet category of vehicles:

 

http://www.caranddriver.com/xp/Caranddriver/roadtests/2002/march/200203_roadtest_caddy_escaladeext.xml?&page=1

 

It weighs 5900 pounds, has a 354 hp engine, and costs @ $49,990. Article doesn't mention MPG.

 

"Cadillac's brand manager says, 'Cadillac research showed that there was a real need for the EXT.'  A real need for a Cadillac pickup? Really? If so, then here are a few things that I really need: An air-conditioned front yard. Iguana-skin patio furniture. Stigmata. Mint-flavored Drano. Gold-plated roof gutters. A 190-hp MerCruiser SaladShooter."

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Kim Flint

Website Development Manager

919-484-9843 x.233

http://www.buildscape.com

 

 

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