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- From: crowede@ucs.orst.edu (Debra Crowe)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Why is US engine technology so retrograde?
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 00:22:59 GMT
- Organization: UCS, Oregon State University
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- References: <1993Jan15.173353.16295@newsgate.sps.mot.com> <1993Jan20.022407.9567@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <IfLw32G00ioW8Ns6J6@andrew.cmu.edu> <1993Jan22.221059.11074@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan22.221059.11074@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen) writes:
- >In article <IfLw32G00ioW8Ns6J6@andrew.cmu.edu> jyri+@CMU.EDU (Jyri Virkki)
- writes:
- >>Large, torqey (sp?) engines feel very different from small high
- >>revving engines. You pick whichever you like the most. Me, I think big
- >>engines are good for trucks and luxury cars, neither of which I have
- >>any interest in. For sport[y|s] cars, like your example above, a large
- >>engine would be disgusting. Large engines tend to be sluggish and low
- >>revving, thus no fun at all on a sports car.
- >
- >oh, really. you haven't driven a corvette LT1 lately, have you?
- >hair-trigger throttle response at any engine speed. compare that
- >to the 300ZX turbo, which needs to see 4 grand to produce any kind
- >of power.
- >
- >-teddy
- >
- yup, there's nothing more fun than being able to squeak 'em in third gear!
- makes the 4 cylinder cars sit up and take notice...
- (makes me feel sooooo high school ;)
-
- Debra Crowe Email:crowede@ucs.orst.edu
- '89 Mustang 5.0
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