Re: New Vette

[Steve Adams <adamsfam@batelco.com.bh>]

> On Tue, 28 Jan 1997, Graydon D. Stuckey wrote:
> 
> >       I drove a new '97 Vette today for an hour or so.
> >       That new aluminum V-8 is a very nice engine though!  
> > high revving, and refined.  It runs smoothly right up to the redline 


Bob D'Amato wrote:
> Someone wrote into Autoweek about that "refined" V8. Something like "Why
> a pushrod V8? This is the 90's not the 50's. If I wanted a truck, Id buy
> a truck..."

Sounds like ignorant rhetoric...Ive owned my 85 ur-q for just over a
month now and while I like the handling will stick with quattro I've
found the engine sounds and performs more like a "truck" than any of the
several pushrod V8's Ive ever owned...:)

For all it's high technology..the I5 Audi engine is not that impressive
from a user's point of view. And just because Chevrolet have used
pushrods to activate the valves instead of ohc's hardly relegates the
design to the fifties..from what Ive read it's a thouroughly modern
design...ohc's aren't that new any way.

I rather think my ur-q would be a nicer sounding,and driving motor
vehichle with a nicely tuned, aluminium V8 up front...:)