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- From: acuff@CAMIS.Stanford.EDU (Richard Acuff)
- Subject: Re: 100 000 miles at redline
- Message-ID: <acuff.724956949@CAMIS>
- Sender: news@medmail.stanford.edu
- Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <1h2vs0INN4m8@access.usask.ca>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:55:49 GMT
- Lines: 10
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- choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.) writes:
-
- >A BMW ad claims their car (or was it just the engine?) was driven for
- >at redline 100 000 miles straight. The engine showed no signs of wear.
- >How does this compare to other cars? How does this compare to airliners?
-
- Given the low redline of recent BMW engines, this is probably less
- impressive than it seems.
-
- -- Rich
-