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- From: tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen)
- Subject: Re: Why is US engine technology so retrograde?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.221059.11074@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1993Jan15.173353.16295@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <1993Jan20.022407.9567@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <IfLw32G00ioW8Ns6J6@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 22:10:59 GMT
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- In article <IfLw32G00ioW8Ns6J6@andrew.cmu.edu> jyri+@CMU.EDU (Jyri Virkki) writes:
- >Large, torqey (sp?) engines feel very different from small high
- >revving engines. You pick whichever you like the most. Me, I think big
- >engines are good for trucks and luxury cars, neither of which I have
- >any interest in. For sport[y|s] cars, like your example above, a large
- >engine would be disgusting. Large engines tend to be sluggish and low
- >revving, thus no fun at all on a sports car.
-
- oh, really. you haven't driven a corvette LT1 lately, have you?
- hair-trigger throttle response at any engine speed. compare that
- to the 300ZX turbo, which needs to see 4 grand to produce any kind
- of power.
-
- -teddy
-