Re: High RPMs at highway speed?

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

> > It's critical to understand that modern
> >automotive engineering is a servant of the bottom line,
> 
> Well, yeah....that's how they stay in business.
> Funny how that works, eh?
> I would think that _all_ business's are run with the primary intention of
> profit. I know mine is.

yeah, but factor in marketing created the perceived, even artificial
need, and the product can have it's bottom line wrapped around almost
any set of absurd criteria.

I always thought the euro mfrs made cars more like what a neutral,
unbrainwashed, driver would find the need for.  

-- 
Huw Powell

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82 Audi Coupe; 84 4kq; 85 Coupe GT
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