Re: Don't believe Corvette owners lies about supposed fuel economy

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:23:45 -0400, "Dad" <knockers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"Ric Seyler" <ricseyler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>news:BCnQj.67997$y05.21407@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>still just me wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:59:05 -0400, Zomby-Woof@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Sheeeit, wife has an `05 Lincoln Aviator AWD with the Ford 4.6.  The
>average on that bitch (vehicle not wife) is @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 best 12/13.  My C4 is
>pretty much a constant 24 with a 5.7.
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>Ummm.... 24 not all that bad... but I wouldn't mention the 12mpg gas
>hog as a way of justifying the 24 :-)
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>>>Still, I have trouble believing that most guys driving 'vettes are
>>>getting 24mpg. Maybe the gray haired old men who bought it for looks
>>>and in a vain attempt to feel young again. If you own a 'vette, you
>>>ought to _drive_ it.
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>>Know anything about physics or aerodynamics?
>>Overdrive w/very low cruising RPM, an engine that doesn't have to 
>>strain the least to get it down
>>the road, very aerodynamic, light relative weight........... pretty 
>>self evident......
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>But then us old men do drive them, when was the last time you saw 140? 
>Of course you're in over your head to drive the Corvette to anywhere 
>near it's potential, plus looking at jail time if you're caught. Top 
>end on my '61 was just a shade under 115, top end on the '05 will most 
>likely not be obtainable as I did learn a few things over the years 
>and some are just not that important anymore.
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Phooey, age is just a state of mind anyhow.  When was the last time
you saw anyone drive on a public road system @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 140 in the US?

Just because you or I may have the skill & ability to drive our cars
at their maximum capability, that doesn't mean the people we are
forced to share the roads with are able to drive theirs at half of
its.  It isn't me driving my car to its limits, it is the knucklehead
(not Motorcycle version) who changes lanes without signaling, or slams
on his/her brakes for no apparent reason that is going to end up being
the death of me on the road, not my obtainable speed.
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>Then again driving the car you like is the name of the game, knocking 
>what others drive is also in the cards for some. Doing so with no 
>experience of ownership or seat time in any of the cars mentioned is 
>kind of juvenile.
>
Oui but of course.  However, some feel compelled to drive car that
others like for whatever reason.  Perhaps peer pressure makes them
drive those fart-pipe-mobiles.
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>The closest I've ever been to the R8/R10 is at the track and it is 
>impressive. The thing is almost ghostly and a tribute to the 
>engineering and the people involved in building such a fine machine. 
>Hopefully it can become a technology to benefit the automotive field. 
>
But it isn't a "mass-produced" vehicle like the Corvette.  It is more
about exploring the limits & challenges of Technology for the mass
production vehicles, then producing a vehicle for the masses.

Dollar for dollar & pound for pound the Base Corvettes will still give
both the Performance & Styling that vehicles twice its price can only
pretend to.  To me it is truly a shame they never went ahead with the
original concept of the Billy-Bob Corvette trimmed of all the current
bells & whistles into just a lean-mean pure driving machine that
doesn't need every electronic do-dad known to man.
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