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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 19:16:17 -0400
From: "Nutmegger" <nutmegger_7717nopsamo.com>
Subject: Re: GM to increase SAAB lineup


"Mark Gerritsma" wrote::: > their're working on introducing a Europe wide system based on third > generation GSM (your DCMA is an improved version of second generation > GSM). All this effort is made just because a passenger high speed rail > link system does make sense in Europe. What is DCMA? > > The US is indeed just to big to make this work. You think so? I found this: In 1870, Europe, the U.S., and Canada had about 187 000 km of railroad track by 1914 they had about 771 000 km of track by 1890, rail network in U.S. was more extensive than through all of Europe, including Russia and the British Isles Railroad Track in 1913 (in thousands of kilometres) U.S. - 309 Germany - 52 U.K. - 29 If they hadn't ripped up so much track......... >All destinations are > just to far apart to make a train system work efficiently. That's not > a problem because most interstates aren't congested. There are already 140,000 miles of existing railroad track in the U.S. Because a single track has the capacity of a 4-lane freeway, this networkís capacity far exceeds that of the existing 42,000 mile Interstate Highway System. Car commuters use over 7,200 British thermal units (Btu)/passenger mile; rail commuters use as little as 1,146 Btu/passenger mile. Freight carried by truck uses nearly 1,900 Btu/ton-mile; freight carried by train uses less than 1/4 that amount ó 443 Btu/ton-mile. Taken from: http://www.culturechange.org/factsheet2.html > Here in Europe the politicians in the '70's though that if they just > stopped building roads, the congestion would get worse enough for > people to start taking trains. 30 years later that still hasn't > happened. So now we have massive congestion everywhere and lots of > plans to add extra asphalt. Oh, here are a few interesting links from the US about congestion. http://www.publictransportation.org/news_congestion.html And: http://www.clf.org/hot/20010507nh.htm > In those 30 years the circumstances have > changed dramatically. But then again, politicians always seem to lag > behind reality. Yes, don't get me started on politicians. :-) Here is some info on the US Rail system. By 1978, the rail share of intercity freight had fallen to 35 percent, down from 75 percent in the 1920s. The status quo was untenable, so Congress essentially had two options: nationalization, at a continuing cost of untold billions of dollars, or deregulation and reliance on the free market. Congress wisely chose deregulation and passed the Staggers Rail Act of 1980. How different our country would be today if Congress did not chose deregulation. Taken from: http://www.tomorrowsrailroads.org/history.asp It even says Class I freight trains are moving more freight than ever before, so that made me feel better. >The Dutch saying 'To govern is to look ahead' I like that, it is how it show be. Our fore fathers in America were good at this. > certainly doesn't apply to my government anyway. Your government is a great deal more progressive than the US, and promotes more individuality. > To get back to the original topic: Lol........ >If I read correctly the Saab 9-2 is > to get a 2.5 and a 2.0 turbo engine. That sounds an awfull lot like > the boxer-4's from Subaru as used in the Impreza. Or have I overread > something? > > Also a possible look into the future: Saab to enter the 2006 World > Rally Championship with the 9-2 turbo? Could just be. That would be cool, I'd like to see that. > The Impreza is > very good rally car and Saab does have a rally heritage. Who knows... Saab always used to look to the future, I kind of lost track these past few years and I wondering if GM will have any negative influence on that.

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