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- From: mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (REAL LIFE?!?! HA!!)
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- Subject: Re: Cadillacs (WAS: INFFINITI vs BMW)
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 01:28:59 GMT
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- carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl) writes:
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- >>The Allante with the Northstar engine makes 60 in 6.7 seconds if I remember
- >>right. And Road&Track LOVED the handling too.....
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- >>Not to mention the thing has a FANTASTIC-sounding exhaust!
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- >Well, the Allante is already a 60k car even before the Nortstar
- >engine. How much extra will the Northstar add - it will probably put
- >it into the 70k range, so for only 25k more than a Q45 you can get
- >exactly the same acceleration. Hmmm, which one would *I* buy :^)
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- I don't know which one *YOU* would buy, but quite frankly, if I had the choice
- between an Allante and a Q45, I'd take the Allante. If I just had $70K (if
- that is in fact the price), you wouldn't find either car in my garage. Come
- on! The Allante is a great car in a lot of ways, the Q is a good car in a lot
- of ways, but neither one is worth what they cost. If I had $70K I could afford
- to blow on a car, and I needed room, you'd see me in a 750iL. The only cars
- that come close are the $125K M-B 600SEL and the non-US XJ12. Actually though,
- here's $70K worth of cars that would be a lot more fun:
- Mercedes Benz 300SEL 6.3 $20,000
- Austin-Healey 100-4 $20,000
- BMW 3.0CSi $20,000
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- $60,000
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- Save the other $10k for Austin-Healey parts and you're set.
- Now wouldn't that feel better than a Q45 or an allante?
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