From: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: 1993 Probe -- two week initial impressions (long-ish)
Date: 15 Nov 1992 18:21:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
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In a previous article, ellisk@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Michael K. Ellis) says:

>dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee) writes:

>IMHO, the Probe looks like, well, a Probe. On steroids. :)  I like the
>look of my GT.  It's quite clean, even with the so-called 'angry front'
>treatment of the GT.  The whole car sticks together quite well as a
>single shape, instead of having a front, middle, and rear stuck onto one
>another without real regard for the whole.

just curious if anyone else has noticed this, or maybe i'm way off..but..
while thumbing through one of my copies of European Car, i noticed this one
add...it was for a BMW soup up shop...i can't think of the name of the company
right now..but they had a BMW 850i sitting there, with their custom wheels, 
and their aeroFX(i think)..but i was struck by the amazing similarity of the
way this car looked in the add to the new probes...of course, i doubt the
similarity would be so close in a real life comparison, but that picture
(mostly cuz o' the wheels, i think) looked almost EXACTLY like a new GT...

>Ordered the car on August 21st. Took delivery November 3rd.  This is, to
>me, UNACCEPTABLE.  Nor did, for instance, my dealer offer me a loaner to
>drive once the 'four to six weeks' they told me when I ordered passed.

hmm..ford doesn't like to offer loaner cars when they work on your car
either, even in cases where it will take a couple of weeks, and it is 
because they screwed up....(or at least the shop my mother had her
ford serviced at didn't like to..for that day, they would take her
somewhere, but they didn't offer a loaner car til she bitched up a storm,
and then she didn't feel it was worth it..they gave her a LTD...she'd have
paid less to fly than she did for gas in that hunk!..and it was gutless
besides!..ford can't get it all right)

>didn't want anyway, but I paid for it, so I want it to work).  Net cost
>to me was probably $10 saved on gas on the Tempo, which gets better
>mileage and takes regular unleaded.  Oh and I also took it to an NFL

you got lucky on this one!

>shifter loosened up.  Only remaining complaint, other than the keyless,
>is that the shifter is *still* occasionally reluctant to go into first
>or reverse, which is embarassing and noisy, not to mention bad for the

reverse is a ford thing...we've owned (in my collective family) 3 brand
news since 88, one a stang, one truck, and one escort, and none of them
ever like going into reverse..sometimes they do..but not always..you 
have to let out the clutch..and then try again..but try not to grind it..
as for the first gear..they tend not to like to go unless the car is 
stopped..it's almost kind of a safety thing there..to keep newbie
stick drivers from accidentally hitting first instead of 3rd or 5th..

glad you like the car...almost makes me hope that i can afford one when
they soup up that little v6 to make it so that it will actually outrun
the old turbo model four..they got the body better, and a better motor,
the just need to do a little more tuning..though i'm sure the v6 has a 
much more pleasant power curve, the all out performance is not yet up
to par with it's improved looks, IMHO.
good luck in the future with it and ford!
DREW
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From: donrm@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Don Montgomery)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:07:27 GMT
Subject: Re: HOW TO AVOID HITTING THE WALL IN GARAGE
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA