Right, I don't out accellerate cars, I out accellerate, out antisipate
drivers.
Paul.
Dean T. Lake wrote:
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> Well put Paul! I have had arguments with other auto enthusiasts about
> what constitutes a sports car. These can be otherwise intelligent and
> informed motorheads, yet they have in their minds the concept of "sports
> car" with "super car" completely confused. There is not enough
> discussion about handling FEEL that is, the total driving experience.
> Theres lots of rambling about how one hp curve compares to the next. A
> sports car used to almost be defined as much by what wasn't there as
> much as what was there. These days, by that criterion, there are no
> sports cars. What defines "sports car" has evolved to include power
> windows, cruise control, and ac. Thats OK by me, but it is part of the
> allure of older, less cushy cars like our MGs. Just one correction,
> Paul, though one that in no way contradicts your essential point: with
> 110 hp you can not out accelerate most other cars, you just choose to
> use what you have when they dont, probably because you are actually
> enjoying yourself as opposed to just thinking about getting home to
> watch reality TV ;-).
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Root [mailto:proot@iaces.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:45 AM
> To: Dean T. Lake
> Cc: 'Paul M.'; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Why no MGs?
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>> Paul, you mention the 318ti - it was coincidentally the car that I was
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>> pondering to complement my B roadster when I decided to simply combine
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>> the two concepts and get a GT. The ti is such a practical, yet neat
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>> little car. The big strike against it from my perspective (besides BMW
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>> pricing) was that it needed the straight six (which they could get in
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> The big problem, apart from the excessive weight of the 318ti is/was
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> that American drivers are too lazy to drive a car. The expect instant
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> Drivers need to get back to driving their cars instead of being a
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> passenger that happens to have a steering wheel in front of them.
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> Auto journalists can be partly blamed with things like, "wow, this
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> is a great car, except, with only 600HP it's not as snappy as it could
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> be. We need the 800HP engine in it." Ok, maybe no one wrote that, but
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> words to that effect. Peter Egan was the only writer I saw that said
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> that the 1.8l in the Z3 was a good choice, if you actually drove the
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> Though one magazine did say that the best balance in the new Mazda6 was
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> I can out accellerate most drivers on the road with my 626 with 110HP or
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> so, and something wrong in the dizzy/coil that loads up at 4000. And of
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> And no, I'm not a great driver. I'm an average driver. As was shown in
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