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- From: rhaar@albert.cs.gmr.com (Bob Haar)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Why is US engine technology so retrogr
- Message-ID: <96923@rphroy.ph.gmr.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 13:47:18 GMT
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- In article 1jq353INN9ft@gaia.ucs.orst.edu, crowede@ucs.orst.edu (Debra Crowe) writes:
- |>In article <1993Jan22.221059.11074@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- |>tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen) writes:
- |>>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
- |>>
- |>yup, there's nothing more fun than being able to squeak 'em in third gear!
- |>makes the 4 cylinder cars sit up and take notice...
- |>(makes me feel sooooo high school ;)
- |>
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- Only third? Then you aren't trying very hard or you don't have
- the recent LT1. Of course, you do have to turn off the traction control
- to get a really good burn.
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