Re: 2006 Eclipse Lousy Mileage

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:40:55 -0800 (PST), fast_cars_guy
<garlington@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


>
>I am sorry about you getting your license at the times when "moggy
>with Holden 6 cylinder and a set of 'widies'" was top of the range.

They were not top of the range, but what a university student in the
late 60's could afford ferchrisakes.

>I am more concerned with car performance and the ease of experimenting
>with it's parameters, it seems to me that for these purposes
>Mitsubi**** are as good (if not better) than any other car. I did not
>have to "remove" my engine, because it already comes with V6, all I
>had to do was to play with little things like timing, supercharging,
>airflow, exhaust and I had as much fun as most...
>And it was cheap too, I did not buy it new, and these days you can get
>FTO in UK for about £2K and who cares about fading paint...

If you are into cheap and nasty rice then Mitsu****y probably
satisfies some people. The things have no class whatsoever. Almost any
turbo car with EFI can be hacked to go faster. It doesn't take much
skill to do that.