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- From: ganapath@tahoe.qualcomm.com (Chinnappa Ganapathy)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: G20 vs. Altima, Fast vs. Slow
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.224856.4795@qualcomm.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:48:56 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qualcomm.1992Nov16.224856.4795
- References: <1992Nov14.212021.5422@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1e3u58INNlht@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1e3u58INNlht@agate.berkeley.edu> shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
- >
- >in answering your question not all cars are created and were designed with
- >different purposes in mind... isn't nissan trying to push the sentra as a
- >"sporty" car... so maybe that's why they gave it a 130 speedo (how fast does
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >a SE-R go anyways? anyone?) while the prism seems to be being pushed as
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >a refine/safe/basic-all-around car (just saw the commercial where they
- >were talking about prism's safety features...); thus the 80 max speedo.
- >
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- Car and Driver measured the SE-R at 125 mph. However the SE-R's speedo
- goes upto 140 mph!
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- Chinna
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