Who said this? "To fully live life you must have an American car..."

[Taverner]

...an English Garden
...a German doctor
...a Russian bartender
...a Vietnamese chef
and a Spanish wife

But to appreciate all of these things, you must be French. Viva le France"

[CJCRANE]

1. K&R...

assuming he or she meant an American classic muscle car.

[hifiguy]

2. If it were me and I won the lottery, I'd opt for

an Italian car,
a Swiss doctor,
a French chef,
the Russian bartender and English garden(er)
an English butler . . .

and a Vietnamese wife.

:evilgrin:

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[Taverner]

3. American cars don't handle turns well do they?

Not the same as a Maserati

[hifiguy]

4. Corvettes certainly do

but I once drove a friend's Ferrari Maranello in the mountain roads around his home in Utah for about a half hour. Lordy lu. :wow: With his prodding I touched 95 on the speedo - he drives VERY fast, not what you'd expect from a 60-something Mormon guy - but he's been to a couple of high-performance driving schools. Anyway, after about 500 feet I realized that I would have to do something so monumentally and intentionally stupid to get into trouble in that car that I relaxed. Mario Andretti once said that his mother could drive a Maranello safely at 150 on open roads. I believe him. At 75-80 mph it felt like the hand of Zeus himself was pressing that car down on the road.

[EOTE]

5. A ZR1 will take on the world's best supercars in both the straights and the twisties.

For a fraction of the price, too. Going a bit toward the low end, the American pony cars (Mustang, Camaro, Challenger) more than hold their own against the Asian and European competition. Even with it's Ferrari sourced engines, there's not a stock Maserati out there that can touch a ZR1, or a Z06 or Viper for that matter. They're beautiful cars and meticulously crafted, but Maserati mostly makes GTs, not true sports cars.

[Mopar151]

8. This isn't the 60's anymore

Basiclaly, tire technology is WAAYYY beter than in days of old, and the power rack and pinion steering gear of the last decade is really good stuff. The differences in performance between the sporting versions of most American cars and their equivalent foreign exotics is barely measurable. "Feel", styling, and image may be quite another matter.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Whoever it is forgot "Swiss Banker."

[Tikki]

7. I don't know...maybe, Peter Sellers...

or Hemingway or Anthony Bourdain or Tarzan?


Tikki

[hifiguy]

9. So who said it, Taverner?

Inquiring minds and all that.

My guess - with no googling? Charles deGaulle.

[Taverner]

10. I don't know - it's not a quiz :)

I googled it and found a lot of variations on it...but no source