[DMCForum] Re: Kicking Martin's What? (With 200 HP)

["John Dore" <dmcjohn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin,

Wasn't the Cadillac Northstar V8 generally accepted as one of the 
greatest engines ever? On both sides of the Atlantic...

What about the Hoover Dam? The Big Dig in Boston? Mount Rushmore? The 
NYC skyline?

Americans make great engineers!

I would hardly consider Jeremy Clarkson or Quentin Willson 
journalists if it is their opinions on American engineering you have 
embraced.

There is nothing so complicated about the European or Japanese method 
of engine design that any American automotive engineer could not 
easily grasp. Its just that those tiny engines that sound like vacuum 
cleaners don't suit the American market. Most Americans (and yes lots 
of Europeans too!) simply like big engines. Those who don't like big 
engines will never understand those who don't, and I think that is 
the way it will remain till our dying days!

John

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxx> wrote:
> Hey, not arguing other stuff, but the lack of any move towards 
economy 
> has left american engines as a bit of a laughing stock everywhere 
else.
> 
> I've also been to Marshall Space Center and Johnson SC, but 
remember 
> also that we came up with Concorde (and I have read that some of 
your 
> guys think that was a bigger achievement - dunno about that tho'). 
I 
> love the whole moon mission saga and read every book I can find on 
the 
> subject.
> 
> Martin
> 
> cruznmd wrote:
> 
> > Without getting into the horsepower arguement, I would like to 
point
> > out that I couldn't give a jackle's tackles what criticism 
Europeans
> > have to offer about our automotive engineering, or any other form 
of
> > engineering for that matter.
> >
> > Americans didn't invent automobiles but we made them practical so
> > everyone could have one.
> >
> > I recommend looking at some of the buildings, bridges, highways,
> > tunnels and monuments here for examples of civil engineering. 
Next, I
> > recommend a tour of Kennedy Space Center in Florida for an 
example of
> > our aeronautical engineering. I heard we sent men to the moon 
once.
> >
> > Oh, and last I checked, the HMS Talent, (our host submarine during
> > mid-deployment refit) is burning one of our reactors for 
propulsion
> > and your SSBN's carry our Trident D-5 nuclear missiles.
> >
> > I don't scorn the European approach to things. The 600+ year old
> > church I visited will always be fresh in my memory. The "chunnel"
> > across the English Channel will always astound me. Let's just 
agree
> > that we have different approaches to the same problem and be 
friends
> > shall we?
> >
> > Rich A.
> >

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