Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:20:28 GMT From: Paul Halliday <pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: BMWs keep trying to smoke me!
in article RoO4a.11471$jR3.5909293nopsam1.news.adelphia.net, Fred W. at Fred.Willsnopsamammyrealbox.com wrote on 19/02/2003 16:37: <SNIP> > What is funny is that the same generalizations can be made for SAABs, ie > many of the purchasers of new SAAB 9-3's and 9-5's have not clue one as to > how they are technically engineered. OTOH it's us guys that buy the 10 year > old used cars and lovingly nurse them through their middle (and old) ages > that really get to experience the differences. Hence the guy who first posted this thread is getting smoked by Beemers. The guy obviously can't drive a new SAAB and thought that because it was a Cabrio with a turbo? that it would race. Turbo driving is a skill. You can floor it and it will move (not like a supercharged hot-hatch though), but if you build the boost you get much more fun. Paul