<Zomby-Woof@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:23:45 -0400, "Dad" <knockers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
"Ric Seyler" <ricseyler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:BCnQj.67997$y05.21407@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>still just me wrote:
>>On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:59:05 -0400, Zomby-Woof@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Ummm.... 24 not all that bad... but I wouldn't mention the 12mpg gas
>>hog as a way of justifying the 24 :-)
>>
>>>>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.
>>
>>>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......
>>
>>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.
>>
> 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?
Yesterday, haven't been out on the road today. Let me qualify that, I
have a road about 1 1/2 miles from my home that has no houses, no
drive ways, no trees, or blind spots, and you can see both ends as you
leave the stop sign. A ready made drag strip with room to spare for
shut down, temptation overcomes me many times. A sane 120 is easy, 140
you can begin to smell the brakes when you get out of the C6 in the
garage. My skill is tempered a bit by being from the thirties so I do
see this pratice as being short lived as are all of us mortal souls
who's state of mind is also affected at some point.
> 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.
>>
>>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.
Automotive people need humor to......
>>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.
I fully understood it's position in the real world when I said,
"Hopefully it can become a technology to benefit the automotive
field." You can't even smell the diesel which is a need for the R8
technology to get resolved, how to make the super refined fuel.
> 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.
Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants, a 2800 pound car with 638 HP
that you had to drive instead of 1,000 pounds of widgets doing it for
you?? Darn, me thinks I need the computer to make that engine
purr.......................
Back to reality, I need to let the '64, (electronic options, radio),
sit out in the sun so the back window will get soft enough to fold to
put the top down today....... ;-))
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