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- From: fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca (Fengxi Zhou)
- Subject: Re: G20 vs. Altima, Fast vs. Slow
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.182740.9213@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:27:40 GMT
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- fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca (Fengxi Zhou) writes:
- : shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
- :
- : : As far as I can tell, speedometers are not really a measure of how fast
- : : a car can go. (but this is only from my own personal experience.) As far
- : : as I know and from my firends experimentations, *most* cars can go faster
- : : than what the speedometers says... except our family's '84 volvo... it
- : :
- : Well, the speedo on my 92 civic sedan says it can "possibly" reach 240kph
- : (150mph?). But I think I really need a pair of afterburners to do that.
-
- Ooops, it is really 220kph (>135mph) (No, it's not VTEC engine). Well, two
- afterburners may be too many. But one is still needed.
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