Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:26:21 +1000 From: "John Robertson" <johnnrnospamsnet.com.au> Subject: Re: Do even Soccer Moms and Grandmas have Superchargers or Twin Turbos in their cars these days?
Depends if its horse power or pony power I had to get a decent turbo Volvo as I was being abused for not moving quick enough in my fairlane now they are still braking when I am well gone moving into traffic GO GREY POWER .......I have just come home with my wife driving her Turbo Volvo she scares me stiff never under the speed limit just over mostly and here in Australia Victoria that means 1.8 miles an hour over and a hundred and twenty Five Dollars to the police with their faulty cameras maybe more .one point eight miles an hour +$125 dollars but she likes to give generously to the police dept . "FanJet" <FanJet27nospamail.com> wrote in message news:bsoHc.80$yo4.42067nospamer.newsread.com... > The Diesel wrote: > > I accelerate normally when I get a green light at the stop light and > > like 95% of the time I'm the slowest accelerating vehicle on the road > > and the cars that were in parallell lanes always out accelerate me by > > a mile and the cars behind me are always tailgaiting when I'm > > accelerating after I get the green light. > > About the only vehicles that I out accelerate with normal acceleration > > are large trucks and busses. > > It's not like everyone on the road is driving a Mclaren F1, Bugatti > > Veyron 16/4 or a Ferrari Enzo, they're driving Accords, Camrys, > > Explorers, Windstars, etc, but they always out accelerate me. > > It's not like people are smoking their tires, I think they're just > > accelerating nomrally. > > I mean it's not like I'm driving a 1987 Yugo. > > It's true that I'm driving a car that weighs over 2 tons, but it does > > have 205hpnospamRPM and more importantly 280 ft-lbs of torque nospamMPH. > > You'd think that a quarter mile time of 16.9 seconds would make a car > > about average or maybe slightly above average, but where I live I > > guess that's considered extremely bad acceleration even for a > > Grandma's Car these days. > > I think you'll find most/all operators of the other vehicles treat the > accelerator as an on/off switch. And, of course, they're all automatics so > it's not like there's any skill involved in driving this way. If you drive > like them, I think you'll find that they aren't out accelerating you. > >
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