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  1. Organization: Masters student, Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!emory!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jv24+
  3. Newsgroups: rec.autos
  4. Message-ID: <0f1em=600WB6Q8y1NM@andrew.cmu.edu>
  5. Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:01:15 -0500 
  6. From: Jyri Virkki <jyri+@CMU.EDU>
  7. Subject: Re: Raising the limit
  8. In-Reply-To: <1e4qotINN2il@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
  9. References: <Uf1IO_G00WB5Jl=lMm@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov12.230134.22211@news.mentorg.com> 
  10.  <1dv7t6INNr6h@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov13.175859.4771@news.mentorg.com>
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  14. aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer) writes:
  15. > 
  16. > >being built with acceptable handling. The only modern car I've been in
  17. > >that became twitchy after 70 or so was the Geo Metro.
  18. >                      ~~~~~~~~~              ^^^^^^^^^
  19. > tail wind??..or down hill??..or both???..AROUND 70, no prob..AFTER 70..in 
  20. > a metro???...( :-) for those of us.....)
  21. > DREW
  22.  
  23. Well, a while ago I had a rental car that was a Metro station wagon,
  24. three cylinder, automatic (couldn't posibly get worse than that
  25. configuration) and it didn't have much trouble achieving 85 or so.
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  28. Jyri J. Virkki | DoD#561 | jyri+@cmu.edu | Carnegie Mellon University | MSINI
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