-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 08:30, Mitja Podreka wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> Mitja Podreka wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Speed is not nearly as dangerous as the *difference of speed*. > What I meant is: "why do you need a car which can go 250km/h if your > country doesn't allow you to go faster than 130km/h." > Saying that I must say that driving 130km/h with Yugo or same speed in > BMW is completely different thing.
"Top speed" *usually* relates to acceleration (specifically, the ability to merge into 130km/h traffic) and always relates to engine power (ability to power a fully loaded vehicle up a large hill at cruising speed). That's why "people" buy excess engine capacity: for those times when they need it (many points in time during the a day, and some weekends). A transmission that would let an engine run at almost idle while cruising at 100 km/h while pulling a lightly loaded vehicle would help. (Are you only enough to remember when 4-speed automatic transmissions were new and great?) Variable cylinder usage would also be useful. (Our minivan doesn't always need all 6 cylinders banging away.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF5we7S9HxQb37XmcRAnX3AJsGMcyfFq+05Q30jenPKbkbTNmxAgCg5qm/ G094v7k0C5Ccv0PFXHq6zCU= =sFHh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
