>>>You couldn't break a Fiat?! Must not have tried too hard.
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>>>Tell me when data handling in .NET gets as good as VFP and maybe I'll move over. Until then, why take any steps backwards?
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>>Nice to see <>somebody<> at least got the gist of my message <bg>.
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>>Although it wasn't exactly about Fiats, I must say that at least my Fiat 600 was virtually indestructible, unlike the c**p they made after that, plus all the Ladas, Polski Fiats, Spanish Seats and Turkish taxis that were modeled after them, for some odd reason.
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>>Pertti
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>Lada plant was built by Fiat and never upgraded, so it's still the same design.

Yeah, a manufacturing plant built by Fiat and the cars built by communists. Ouch!!!

What always puzzled me, though, was "why Fiat?" It was a very "problematic" brand already by then. Why not VW or Toyota or, heck, even Volvo, for Pete's sake? Fiat executives must have at some point hatched an evil, dark strategy to take over the automotive world BY PROXY. They built plants all over the place -- let's see... Russia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Turkey, Spain... And they ended up taking over the world's junk yards by proxy instead, which -- I suppose -- is an accomplishment in itself.