timnagin wrote: >Not really, at least from everything I have heard. When you say you don't >like the sound of a rumbling American V-8, we would say that the little >whining cars sound like they haven't yet reached puberty ;) > Which would be a minority view on the world stage. The US market is so utterly seperate from the rest of the world. > While the >recent fad with little four-cylinder cars becoming ever more pronounced, >there really is no substitute for cubic inches. > Probably 95% of cars on the road over here are 4 cyl, with several city runabouts having 3 cyl engines now. >Personally, I just think >they are very, very annoying. Diesel powered cars are not really considered >performance vehicles, and they tend to be much more expensive. > True. Nobody's ever had a sports car with a diesel engine, but the extr cost is outweighed by the savings in the cost of fuel. From a pure engineering standpoint, the diesel engine is a better product than a petrol engine. >I imagine >they would be more reasonably priced where you are since they are more >common. I am looking at buying a new truck and I want a diesel, but that >alone is a $7,000.00 (4,430.37 GBP?) option. > OWCH. >I have never driven a Skyline, but I have driven a few powerful turbo'd >vehicles. I have never liked the spooling and sudden surge in power, >though I imagine one could get used to it and learn to drive it. Why not >just use a super charger and get smooth power all across the power band? > Superchargers run out of puff up at the top end, so a turbo'd car will always produce more power, all other things being equal. >>Have a look on Google for "opel lotus omega swedish police" >>and track down a video taken from a Saab 9000 turbo cop car chasing a >>Lotus Omega (LHD version of Lotus Carlton). It's really funny. >> >> > >I searched and was unable to find it. Do you have a link? > http://www.andywhittaker.com/lotus/lotusvideo/gt3_testrun.htm (down the bottom) Remove "opel" from search criteria and you get loads of links. Martin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=259538.3793308.5048975.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1712983/R=0/SIG=11u38u3s2/*http://hits.411web.com/cgi-bin/hit?pa ge=1374-105951838331032> click here <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=259538.3793308.5048975.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1712983/rand=856469390> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
<<attachment: winmail.dat>>
Back to the Home of PROJECT VIXEN