Date: 8 Jul 2004 10:43:45 -0700 From: hollywood_onealnospamo.com (The Diesel) Subject: Do even Soccer Moms and Grandmas have Superchargers or Twin Turbos in their cars these days?
I accelerate normally when I get a green light at the stop light and like 95% of the time I'm the slowest accelerating vehicle on the road and the cars that were in parallell lanes always out accelerate me by a mile and the cars behind me are always tailgaiting when I'm accelerating after I get the green light. About the only vehicles that I out accelerate with normal acceleration are large trucks and busses. It's not like everyone on the road is driving a Mclaren F1, Bugatti Veyron 16/4 or a Ferrari Enzo, they're driving Accords, Camrys, Explorers, Windstars, etc, but they always out accelerate me. It's not like people are smoking their tires, I think they're just accelerating nomrally. I mean it's not like I'm driving a 1987 Yugo. It's true that I'm driving a car that weighs over 2 tons, but it does have 205hpnospamRPM and more importantly 280 ft-lbs of torque nospamMPH. You'd think that a quarter mile time of 16.9 seconds would make a car about average or maybe slightly above average, but where I live I guess that's considered extremely bad acceleration even for a Grandma's Car these days.
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