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Re: Stop Comparing EVs to today's cars

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From: DaveHatunen
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <4cu6k6$sr6@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>,
Martin J. Bernard III  <stncar@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>In <hatunenDKx6rs.8HA@netcom.com> hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen)
>writes: 
>>
>>And you've now cut the part in the quotes where you (I believe it was)
>>said advertising woudl do the job, to which I posted counterexamples
>to
>>show that advertising didn't always do the job.
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>Oh, now I see your point (I didn't say that about the Impact but it
>dosen't make any difference). I agree, advertising will not sell
>blunders like the Edsel, new Coke, etc. You think the Impact is a
>blunder. 
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I didn't say that.
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>I guess we shall see starting next fall. 
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If it fails there will be much breast-beating about how GM didn't try
hard enough, or how so-and-so industry deliberately sabotaged it. Even
if it simply wasn't palatable to the marketplace, EV fanatics will not
accept this.
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Nevertheless it will be interesting.
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From: hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen)
Subject: Re: Stop Comparing EVs to today's cars
Date: 1996/01/09
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