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- From: steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "daffy" Hunt)
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: Power limits for beginners (was Re: Assholes and Education)
- Message-ID: <21207@acorn.co.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:01:27 GMT
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- Speed Freak (ian@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk) wrote:
- : I wasn't sure if you were serious or not. The problem with this is that it
- : is the driver's attitude that is the problem. Even a 900cc Fiat can do
- : nearly 80mph. Although it can't accelerate very quickly it is still possible
- : to wind it up to speed and then hold it at high speeds on country roads.
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- It's a good point... there is considerable incentive to corner too
- fast in a car with poor acceleration, because it takes so long to
- reach cruising speed again on the next straight
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- Steve Hunt steve@acorn.co.uk
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