-Larry
-Larry
That's simply gorgeous.
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Cheers,
Rod.
Bah, another big and clunky american car. This is true beauty
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FullTests/articleId=10861...
:-)
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David G Fisher
One for each foot.
Besides, nothing beats good old fashioned Detroit Iron/Torque.
-Larry
Traction control on an Elise? -how ***do you need to be to require that?
Even I managed the raw form easily when I had a test drive back 2003. Can't
imagine an extra 50hp could have turned it into an animal.
If I had money to throw away on a car I would rarely use, I'd have one.
Jan.
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Yeah, still going strong those Detroit factories.. lmao
What is it with cars these days getting so porky? Even a freaking GTI
weighs well over 3000lbs.
> One for each foot.
> Besides, nothing beats good old fashioned Detroit Iron/Torque.
> -Larry
>> Bah, another big and clunky american car. This is true beauty
>> http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FullTests/articleId=10861...
>> :-)
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>> David G Fisher
They weigh so much so people like your buddy can walk away from accidents
without a scratch. I couldn't even imagine driving something as small as
the Elise (or even a GTI, for that matter) in traffic anywhere in America.
You'd also be surprised how well you can get those old musclecars to handle,
and beating the Elise down a straightaway is easy business.
Ryan
http://www.topgear.com/content/features/stories/2005/12/stories/03/1....
http://www.topgear.com/content/features/stories/2006/01/stories/02/1....
That's American logic for you....no wonder they all drive SUVs in the
cities.
I like it, but remember the Charger. Concept looked like a Charger,
when it actually hit the street, it looks like a 300C.
Don McCorkle
No, actually we don't. ;-)
Yeah, the car as battering ram is indeed one approach to safety, and size =
safety is an easy concept for car shoppers to grab onto and salesmen to
push. But stats I've seen suggest SUV's aren't really safer than cars as
far as prevention of injury. And of course passive safety isn't the only
kind; the land yachts need it since they can't maneuver around accidents,
besides being intended for people who are not particularly skilled at, or
interested in, driving. Fair enough, but I'll take my chances in the
vehicle that delivers useable, efficient performance every day over the one
that gives me something I haven't needed in several decades of driving.
Come to think of it, that FZR I used to sport around on probably wasn't so
safe either; how did I ever survive?
As for beating an Elise or similar car down a straightaway with a musclecar,
no argument if it's long enough, straight enough and flat enough. But I
generally avoid roads like that except as basic transport routes to work or
such. Any road with enough character to turn onto for entertainment's sake
looks very different. And on one of those, the musclecar finds itself in an
argument with the laws of physics. One that can be won with brute force
and/or cubic dollars, but that really shouldn't be needed.
Colin Chapman was right, you know...
> That's American logic for you....no wonder they all drive SUVs in the
> cities.
Far too many people consider their car an artificial *** extension
IMHO anyway.
Cheers, uwe
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