Ferrari Mailing List: Re: The sounds of a "Honda"

[MFORDHILL (MFORDHILL]

In a message dated 2/27/2007 1:24:59 PM Central Standard Time,  
philville [at] dejazzd.com writes:

At one  point in time I was approached by an employee of Accura, we discussed 
my  spending time with the Calif. based marketing guys to see if the NSX 
could not  be made to sound more "Italian" which was one of the few acknowleged 
 
shortcomings of that car. At the time, I guess I should have tried to make a  
serious case for doing so.

Oh well,  Phil


Back in the mid 90's I spent a year as a car salesman. I sold Fords. Before  
the flaming starts ;-), I was an educated salesman and my customers were  
educated buyers (accountants, engineers, etc..) hence I didn't make any money 
at  
it... but I digress. I worked for a large dealership in Houston at the time 
Ford  introduced the Expedition. I recognized it as big opportunity for us 
salespeople  and learned everything I could about the vehicle. Shortly 
thereafter a 
group of  Toyota engineers and executives visited 4 dealerships around the 
country,  including mine, to learn about Ford's full size SUVs and trucks. I 
was 
chosen by  the dealership to sit with them and go over the finer points of 
the vehicles.  Given I was inculded along with the best salespeople on the 
floor 
I was quite  flattered. Seeing what Toyota has produced since then I look 
back and feel  somewhat like a "traitor".
 
An interesting note was that as I was demonstrating the folding second row  
seat, a Toyota engineer observed that a woman attempting to get to  the third 
row seat could concievably snag her skirt on the mechanism  exposed by the 
folded second row seat.
 
As far as my changing tastes in the best looking v8 / flat 12 go.  The 308 
GTB and 365/512 Boxer would have received my vote back in the day  but the 
quirky gt4 get's it now, along with the 512TR.
 
While on a drive with some local car enthusiasts I saw a green  metallic NSX 
going the opposite direction. I saw him staring at us but I  was the only one 
of our group that noticed him...
 
 
Mike
 
'78 308 gt4
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