So maybe a *perceived* fear of a 944 IS unjustified. Since > Perception is a
HORRIBLE thing. <
And since the Honda crowd is frightened of DSMs, and Mustangs, perhaps with
that perception we should ban them, too. Houston, I think we have a problem.
I think that *thinking* potential SM competitors are afraid to come out if a
Porsche is there is a load of hooey.
Matt Murray
mattm@optonline.net
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From: <dg50@daimlerchrysler.com>
> "Matt Murray" <mattm@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> > Ahhh, perception is a wonderful thing.
>
> Perception is a HORRIBLE thing. My life would be very much easier if
> everybody had an undistorted view of objective reality, and based their
> expressed opinions and actions off that. No such luck. :|
>
> The on-the-ground results are a little less DSM-and-Mustang biased. I
> attribute the above average DSM and Mustang populations on the website to
> my high profile on the DSM online community, the above-average "wiredness"
> of DSMs (and the central nature of that wiredness - the center of the DSM
> universe is the Talon Digest at dsm.org), and the fact that SM rules are
> more turbo friendly than the Rest Of Solo. I think there's something
> similar going on on the Mustang side - we have a few high-profile Mustang
> guys who have been promoting the hell out of SM on the Mustang online
> communities, there's a lot of Mustangs online, and we're
subframe-connector
> and camshaft friendly.
>
> We're getting a small surge of Subarus for the same reasons.
>
> It's proving to be much harder to reach the Hondas that we first thought.
> The Honda community is much more fractured and clannish, and they seem to
> be easily intimidated - not suprising when your base vehicle starts off at
> a lower performance level than, well... pretty well everything else. But
> the Honda community is also easily the largest, so time invested in
getting
> our message out to them is well invested. Those that do come out have a
> good time. :)
>
> > And just so no one misconstrues this, I consider this healthy discussion
> > with Kent, Dennis, and others (including Karl :^) ).
>
> And taken as such. :)
>
> DG
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