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- From: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Raising the limit
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 20:30:35 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
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- In a previous article, jyri+@CMU.EDU (Jyri Virkki) says:
-
- >aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer) writes:
- >>
- >> >being built with acceptable handling. The only modern car I've been in
- >> >that became twitchy after 70 or so was the Geo Metro.
- >> ~~~~~~~~~ ^^^^^^^^^
- >> tail wind??..or down hill??..or both???..AROUND 70, no prob..AFTER 70..in
- >> a metro???...( :-) for those of us.....)
- >> DREW
- >
- >Well, a while ago I had a rental car that was a Metro station wagon,
- >three cylinder, automatic (couldn't posibly get worse than that
- >configuration) and it didn't have much trouble achieving 85 or so.
- >
- oh
- you sure it wasn't blown?...or something..
- but seriously
- i've HEARD(yes, that means that it could be wrong) that the advertised
- top speed for metros is 70..i dunno..are eurospec different..like do
- they sell them anyplace else with higher output(the geos..not whatever
- brand actually makes them)..now..i don't know WHO advertises this mph
- figure(you are talking MPH, not KPH)..but i don't quite know why in the
- hell geo would...unless they want daddys to buy them for their kiddies..
- beats me..so..i guess my must have gotten a good one...most of them that
- i've ever heard of will not go that fast(from owners)but what does it
- matter..i doubt either of us want to buy one for it's top speed(nor for
- any other reezon, IMHO)
- DREW
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