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* What percentage of 20 year old cars are on the road? - 9 messages, 6 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos.nissan/t/7483cc33ad80a6fb?hl=en
* '98 Frontier cranks but won't start. - 1 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: What percentage of 20 year old cars are on the road?
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.autos.nissan/t/7483cc33ad80a6fb?hl=en
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== 1 of 9 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 28 2009 1:47 pm
From: N8N

On Oct 28, 4:17 pm, cl...@snyder.on.ca wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:51:57 -0700 (PDT), N8N <njna...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >On Oct 28, 2:09 pm, klu...@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> >> N8N  <njna...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >> >If it's a US-centric list, that makes sense, since neither was sold
> >> >here.
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> >> It's a Canadian list.  That's why it doesn't have Yugo on it.
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> >> However, Peugeot, Renault, and Fiat all sold cars in the US for a while.
> >> You don't see a lot of them on the road today for reasons that will be
> >> immediately apparent if you ever drive one.
> >> --scott
> >> --
> >> "C'est un Nagra.  C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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> >Not in the last 20 years, I don't think.  Last one to leave was
> >Renault I believe in something like '87 or '88?
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> >nate
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> Peugeot/Chrysler stopped selling 505 in 1991 The renaul Alliance  and
> Eagles ended in 1987

You sure about that? I seem to remember the Peugeot dealership in
Pittsburgh packing up and leaving town while Renaults were still being
sold. Your date for Renault sounds about right to me, although I
think they still did sell the Renault-based Eagle Premier for a couple
more years.

nate

== 2 of 9 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 28 2009 2:57 pm
From: clare@snyder.on.ca

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:43:03 -0700 (PDT), N8N <njnagel@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On Oct 28, 4:08 pm, cl...@snyder.on.ca wrote:
>> On 28 Oct 2009 14:09:09 -0400, klu...@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
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>> >N8N  <njna...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> >>If it's a US-centric list, that makes sense, since neither was sold
>> >>here.
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>> >It's a Canadian list.  That's why it doesn't have Yugo on it.
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>> >However, Peugeot, Renault, and Fiat all sold cars in the US for a while