The latest attempt at a Microsoft car

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:09:41PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>> Evan> Why am I not surprised that their partner is Fiat?  And why is the
>> Evan> project called "blew me"?
>>
>> Is Fiat known for obnoxious anti-competitive practices?
> 
> Well they used to make very fancy nice cars, then later they made some
> very good cars that were cheaper than their competitors, and then after
> that they made some cars no one wanted and got into serious financial
> trouble, and I have no idea what they have done after that.

You forgot to mention they also licenced the design to the Russians, for
the Lada, which is an even worse car than the Fiat!

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