[DMCForum] Re: DeLorean Space Shuttle? (Greg)

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think Martin was poking fun at my much older examples. American
passenger cars haven't used cast iron engine blocks for years.

They're also much smaller now -- not really much different from
European luxury sedans. Used to be 20 plus feet long and weighed more
than 2 tons.

But even Martin has to admit: there's no sensation quite like cruising
in a car that's 2-3 times the magnitude of anything coming off an
assembly line today. Absolutely like floating on air. The sensation is
more like sitting on your couch at home than driving down the road.
That's why he's so upset about cornering -- would actually be counter
productive on some of his roads (especially in whatever you want to
call that part of his country that sticks out towards Penzance).

On your next purchase, if you can't find anything domestic in the new
car showrooms to light your fire, consider Hemmings.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "timnagin" <timnagin@xxxx> wrote:
> >Whereas american cars are far too big to be any use other than
extending 
> >a man's libido (not called "yank tanks" for nothing), utterly
useless on 
> >any kind of corner or handling generally, cheaply made with plasticy 
> >interiors, stupidly inefficient big engines made from volcanic rock
and 
> >pig-iron chucking shit into the environment on a scale that keeps
you at 
> >the no 1 spot as the "worlds' biggest polluter, generally laughed
at by 
> >the rest of the world and utterly incapable at standing up against any 
> >European or Japanese car in any contemporary road test I've ever 
> >read/seen on TV.
> >
> >You stay on your side, Bill, I'll stay on mine
> >
> >Martin
> 
> 
> I would agree with most of that about how cheap American vehicles
look and
> feel.  On my last purchase, I tried really hard to buy an American
vehicle
> and just couldn't.  
> 
> I have read stories about how people in other countries want some of
these
> just like we want some of theirs, like wanting what one doesn't have
access
> to.  As an example, and I know it's not an American car, but people over
> seas will buy the "Infiniti G-35" logos to put on there car, where
people in
> the states will buy the "Skyline" logos for theirs.
> 
> About the performance though, I have read several articles comparing
super
> cars.  The Corvette, possibly the Z06, was said to have more "bang
for the
> buck" when put up against some Ferraris and such.  Obviously the
Corvette is
> produced in greater numbers, which helps the price to drop, and is
easier
> and cheaper to maintain.
> 
> Greg

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