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Re: Do you qualify? Was Re: Globalization, H1-B Visas, other geeky stuff...
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Mon, 26 Aug 2002 18:36:51 GMT
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OK, so can catch up or even exceed many high efficiency cars by
enhancing your sports car. But what if you made the same
modifications to a Geo Metro or other high efficiency vehicle?
--Bill.
"Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> writes:
> Psh. You don't know the sports car owners *I* do.
>
> I use my car several levels higher than it was intended ;-)
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> While putting out over 1.5 times the stock horspower, I actually get BETTER gas
> mileage than stock (making more power generally requires increasing efficiency, which
> equals better mpg when your foot isn't in it).
>
> How much do you want to bet that my SPORTS car gets better mpg and burns cleaner than
> at least 75% of the cars owned by people in this group? Don't take that bet unless
> you are willing to cough up some Lego. Even my wife's SPORTS car, tired as it is at
> 140K miles, just smogged at 5ppm/7ppm last month.
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> Don't make ASSumptions about sports cars or pigeonhole them into some treehuggers
> nightmare category without doing some research.
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> William R Ward wrote:
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> > "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> writes:
> > > Although they should be SHOT for combining sports cars with SUVs as a vehicle
> > > choice - the type of person that buys an SUV is NOTHING like a sports car owner.
> >
> > I dunno ... they're both woefully inefficient and useless, wasting
> > lots of gasoline and polluting the environment, and are almost never
> > used for their supposedly intended purposes, but rather are used just
> > for commuting or getting around town most of the time...
>
> --
> Tom Stangl
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>
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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