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Re: [Re: [Fw: [sorta off topic] Need For Speed (not the game)]]



I tell my eight cylinder friends that I'll race them to the gas station...

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Weiler <lerb@redrose.net>
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 7:33 AM
Subject: Fw: [Re: [Fw: [sorta off topic] Need For Speed (not the game)]]


>Here is one reply from a friend about this page hehehe Damn american car
>people (he owns a newer firebird).
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "mike birney" <kmbirney@netscape.net>
>To: "Mike Weiler" <lerb@redrose.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 7:38 AM
>Subject: Re: [Re: [Fw: [sorta off topic] Need For Speed (not the game)]]
>
>
>NO your all wrong--Us american cars people don't even waste our time with
>this
>"little car stuff".  Well to be honest we wouldnt even fit in with you
guys.
>We'd have to take our muffler off, get rid of the suspension, and
disconnect
>4
>cylinders and write all over the car.  Humm..... Oh yeah and to make it
even
>better we'd have to put a fubba or whatever the heck that thing is on the
>car........and the date thing---we're just crusin right along.
>
>Did you know about the car show at ocean city md next weekend?  I might go.
>You going?
>
>
>"Mike Weiler" <lerb@redrose.net> wrote:
>Only fact that is present is the LACK of american cars even in the
>pole.......shows you people are afraid to make em go fast for too long
>because they blow up.......kinda like you date last week huh? hehehe
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "mike birney" <kmbirney@netscape.net>
>To: "Mike Weiler" <lerb@redrose.net>
>Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 9:30 AM
>Subject: Re: [Fw: [sorta off topic] Need For Speed (not the game)]
>
>
>A Scirocco going 134mph?  Big deal.  Dad's Mazda will do that.  Heck lots
of
>cars will do that today.  Besides  HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO GET TO THAT
>SPEED?????  Interesting how they didnt include that.
>
>Mr. American car lover
>
>
>"Mike Weiler" <lerb@redrose.net> wrote:
>Let me see all you car wusses top this speeds
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Neal Tovsen" <sixteen.volt@gte.net>
>To: "Scirocco-L" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 1:03 AM
>Subject: [sorta off topic] Need For Speed (not the game)
>
>
>> I'm not sure if this link has been around yet, but I got it from the RS
>> list, and it's pretty cool.
>>
>> http://come.to/need4speed
>>
>> It's a site dedicated to taking photographs of cars' speedometers at top
>> speed. The current high mark is a Mclaren F1 at 391km/h (244Mph!!!
there's
>a
>> quicktime video of it, too...).
>>
>> They have the cars divided into groups by horsepower, and 5th place in
the
>> 100-150hp class is a Euro-spec Scirocco (215km/h = 134mph)! A lot of the
>> pics are from Europe, of course, but not all. There's a few other VWs in
>the
>> ranks, too (what is a Sharan, anyway??). Most of the pics were sent in by
>> "M.Lusk", whoever that is...
>>
>> Check out the Golf 4-Motion in Class 2. 150Mph, and the pic shows traffic
>in
>> front of him and beside him! That means that either the traffic was
>HAULIN',
>> or he did some serious braking after snapping the shutter...
>>
>> Neal
>>
>>
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