George Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    --- Adrian Stott wrote:

> ISTR that a couple of decades ago one of the American car companies
> started marketing a vehicle in Latin America that it called the
> "Cojo". It soon stopped.

Not familiar with that one but there was a widely-circulated story
about the american car company Chevrolet selling their Nova model in
spanish-speaking countries. This one made a good story but was
essentially a made-up tale. Details at:

http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp

- george [who's usual email and website are still down]


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How *do* you people manage to find so many inaccessible sites???
  This one comes up as ''GLOBAL BLOCKED''
  Barry
  Nb notintheinnercircle

       
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