[Biturbos4] Naughty thought...

[Quincy Chiang]

I think I've read something similar in another car mag!

----- Original Message -----
From: Grant <gfl1 at optonline.net>
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:10 am
Subject: Re: [Biturbos4] Naughty thought...

> 
> On Apr 19, 2005, at 2:08 AM, Quincy Chiang wrote:
> >
> > I guess my point is that it's arguably more fun hauling ass in a 
> less 
> > powerful car with great handling, than trying hard not to WOT 
> all the 
> > time in a more powerful car cuz that's torture!
> >
> Ahh. Now we're getting somewhere.  The best car-guy column ever 
> written, hands down, goes way back to when I was a kid.  Patrick 
> Bedard 
> wrote a column in Car and Driver called "The Slow Car as a Moving 
> Experience". In it, he compared his recent experience driving a 
> Fiat X 
> 1/9 vs a Ferrari 308.  As he noted, the Fiat allowed him to run to 
> redline, tires squealing, through the gears, in DC traffic without 
> ever 
> compromising his license.
> 
> He gets it.
> 
> Grant
> 
>