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- From: squigg@gssec.bt.co.uk (Stephen Quigg)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: G20 vs. Altima, Fast vs. Slow
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.134108.5112@gssec.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:41:08 GMT
- References: <1e3u58INNlht@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Nov16.181041.8764@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov16.181041.8764@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca (Fengxi Zhou) writes:
- |> shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy) writes:
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- |> : 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.
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- Its more the case in Europe that because the speedo is so badly calibrated , you
- can get the speedo right round ....
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- I drive a Vauxhall(GM) Astra 1.3 ..... GM says it can go at 106mph ...
- .....coming down the motorway one night , I got the speedo to say 117mph!!!!
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- Most people here think that means their 80bhp car CAN go that fast , and brag
- about it constantly ...
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- What people were saying about civics being unsafe at 90mph : I used to drive one
- every few weeks at more than that speed sometimes ,and it was always completely
- composed ,but then they probably fit stiffer dampers for us Europeans ,what with
- our different handling tastes etc ...!
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- Stephen Quigg
- squigg@gssec.bt.co.uk
- British Telecom , GSSEC , Glasgow
- (Nothing in any of my mail represents my Employer in any way)
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