2 liter car executive perk (NAC)

[Cody]

>> Here in the States, a "2 liter car" is an outright insult, not an executive
>perk. People have quit, even gone postal, over less.
>
>And your gas guzzlers have a maximum speed of what?  On a German Autobahn, a surprisingly
>large proportion of the cars in the outer lane are Audi A4 1.9TDI wagons, averaging 130mph+
>for hours at a time.

Now I'll start by saying I wouldn't be caught dead in a car with better then 3.8l displacement (thats a Porsche 993RSR engine, hehe), and I hate V8 cars as much as anybody I've met, buuuut what I will have to say is in the US we have no Autobahn, and most aren't concerned with top speed because they will never get a long enough road to get to that speed. What most care about here is 0-60 times, and 0-100 times. Small european cars while they may run 130mph all day long (such as my 2.0l VW/Porsche 914 that does 132mph TOPS) take a long time to get there. A stock Mustang (again, wouldn't be caught dead in one) as the US example may only go 130mph (actually I'm not sure how fast they go but that seems about right) it will hit the 70mph highway speed limit before the 914 will hit 35mph. It's a different idea of going fast, for a different road situation. Top speed may be great when you have a place to do it, but here you can't cruise on a highway at more then 90mph for too long !
 without running into them funny white and blue cars covered with flashing lights.


As for your Bush comments, well I sure as hell didn't vote for him.

-Cody Forbes
Black Forest Racing
2x '86 5ktq
'87 5ktq EFI (which will smoke that stock Mustang to _ANY_ speed)
'88 80 4cyl (which couldn't beat a dead snail)