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Re: Do you qualify? Was Re: Globalization, H1-B Visas, other geeky stuff...
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Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:31:37 GMT
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A Metro would likely explode, and HE vehicles are already HE, there's not a whole lot more
you can squeeze out of them.
I'll stick with my overpowered monster that has better than stock efficiency,
thankyouverymuch ;-)
William R Ward wrote:
> 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 ;-)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Don't make ASSumptions about sports cars or pigeonhole them into some treehuggers
> > nightmare category without doing some research.
> >
> >
> > William R Ward wrote:
> >
> > > "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
> > ***http://www.vfaq.com/
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> >
> >
>
> --
> William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Verbing weirds language. --Calvin
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Tom Stangl
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