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Re: Tigers VS Corvette's

To: Bennett Cullen-P21988 <Cullen.Bennett@motorola.com>
Subject: Re: Tigers VS Corvette's
From: Steve Wickland <wickland@poseidontech.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 16:18:24 -0700
Bennett Cullen-P21988 wrote:

> The Tiger, however will break both of them loose coming off the line and
> keep them that way unless you let up for a split_second and then punch her
> again for the thrill of adrenaline (read that acceleration). Then go for 2nd
> at around 60mph and get another side twitch as they momentarily break loose
> in second gear. You can keep this up until you run out of gears and
> petal_metal at which time (as the old song goes "Wow, the telephone poles
> look like a picket fence...".

Wow, is this typical?  The original road tests were 8.5 sec. to 60 and about
16 sec. in the 1/4 if my memory serves.  If I got that out of my Tiger what
Cullen does, I would have never gone for the 5.0L and T5.

Steve W.



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