[s-cars] Re: other cars vs. S4

[Lee Levitt]

At an autocross last summer, the best time of the day was turned in by the
regional autocross champion. No big surprise here, except that he had just
sold his WRX and was driving a Hertz prepared 2 door American car of some
sort.

Yep, a freaking rental car. I *think* he added air to the front tires.

Lee

Bill writes:

>
> One of the car mags, a few years back, had an article on the press intro
> of the then new Toyota Supra. The writer was trying out the turbo Supra
> at Laguna Seca, when he saw a Toyota Tercel gaining ground in the
> rearview mirror. He was finally passed by said Tercel. When he looked
> over, he saw Dan Gurney behind the wheel of the econobox. A truly
> humbling experience, no doubt.
>
> Dan was running the Toyota IMSA program at the time. You'd think Toyota
> would have had enough sense to keep him off the track, when they were
> trying to trumpet their new "supercar".
>
> Bill Noland
> waiting for a repeat of the 1969 "Dan Gurney for President" campaign --
> ya got my vote, Dan
>
> >HEAR HEAR!  Amen to that.  I am sick of hearing discussions on
> this list of=
> > how one is able to best another car (Maxima most recently) in
> the other la=
> >ne on the street, or this car vs. that.  If you really want to
> test the car=
> >, take it to a DE-- but be prepared to be humbled.  I've been
> lapped on the=
> > dry track by a mildly-prepped VW-Rabbit on a good driver.
> >
>
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