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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:14:32 GMT
From: njahnopsamejanews.com
Subject: Re: An irritation I need answered.


In article <36759e4c.3422023nopsam.gis.net>, Stephnopsamatico.ca (Stephnopsamatico.ca) wrote: > Irritating is having to look at, drive, smell, work on a Saab! > What do you people see in these cars? Yupporama! > No I am not a Mechanic, uneducated, nor the rest of the thoughts which > you may be thinking. > Yes I enjoy a mid six-figure income as President and CEO of the > High-Tech Information Systems Company which I formed five years ago at > age 31. I just cannot dig the look, the shitty ride, marginal > handling, lack of power, and listening to various ICQ's, not fun to > perform preventative maintenance or repairs on. Why I ask? You people > obviously have not driven enough cars. > Steph > Sorry but I just had to bite! Here are some of the cars I have driven or owned; 1) BMW M3 2) Lotus Espirit (old style) 2) Fiat Coupe 3) Rover 220 turbo coupe 4) Saab 900 T16 (my own car) 5) Tuned MINI with over 100 bhp and stripped interior 6) Tuned MINI with fully rose jointed suspension, poly bushes etc. 7) Mercedes C180 I have owned or driven many other more mundane cars but I think I have had enough of a sample to know what I am talking about. BTW my brother is a mechanic and has driven SL600 so I have his opinions to back me up. Here is what I think about these cars 1) BMW M3 Bloody fast! But not that amazing, you tend to feel a little bit remote from what is going on outside. This makes it difficult to judge just where the limits are. BTW the handling in terms of corner speed is not really that much higher than the others, the balance is however superb and admittedly much better than my SAAB 2) Lotus Espirit Without doubt the most loony car I have ever been in. The speed you can take corners at makes the M3 and any other over-rated german cars look slow and pathetic. The accelaration from the 2ltr engine was not that brilliant. The interior and the driving position are also total crap. 3) Fiat Coupe The most overrated car on the planet! I will not say more. 5) Rover turbo coupe Oh no here comes a bend! 6) My old MINI As fast as my SAAB to 50 mph and far better handling in the wet. In the dry however my SAAB will easilly corner as fast and has better brakes. 7) My brothers old MINI. The only car I have ever seen that would out handle this car was the Lotus. Even the M3 would not corner as fast and was no where near as much fun! Now my own car. It handles as well as a MINI, pisses all over the Mercedes C180 and makes the Fiat and Rover look cheap and nasty (very nasty if you try and drive one of these fast!). Admittedly it is not as good as a BMW M3 but then again one of these is nearly 40K pounds (UK). My SAAB cost me 1300 and I most definetly would not swap it for any car under 20K (Maybe a Mitsubishi Evo 5 from Holland might tempt me). On another note the real world handling of the M3 will not give you that much advantage over a well set up SAAB 900. People that harp on about how brilliant the handling of BMW's are have either not driven enough cars or just can't drive in a way to use a cars potential i.e. the idiots on the UK magazine Auto Express. The Lotus is another story. BTW I have not mentioned any american cars since they are a total joke in performance terms (corvette possible exception), and don't relpy with endless boring and meaningless BHP figures. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own

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