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Re: More on Prices (long winded)

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Subject: Re: More on Prices (long winded)
From: mit-eddie!cbmvax.commodore.com!augi@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Joe Augenbraun)
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 90 9:45:45 EDT
> 
> I have this on my board to look at and remind me...
> 
> Car                   0-100      total       distance        g's
> 
> Cobra               7.94        12.07         1468      .87+    1.00-
> Ferrari Testarossa  13.7        20.1          1808      .61+     .97-
> Porsche 930         14.8        21.2          1890      .74+    1.06-
> (others deleted)

> There were others and some of the numbers are suspect but its 
> fun to drool over.  What can other SOL machinery do?  E-Type could
> be up there with the Cobra obviously, as could members of the Lotus
> family...

Its not so obvious to me.  0-60 of a three carb E-type is probably mid to
high 6's, 2 carb would be high 7's to low 8's.  0-60 of the 930 has got
to be in the 5's as would be the Testarossa's.  Thus I would expect the
E-type's 0-100 numbers to be far worse than at least the cars that I picked
from your list.

Sorry to burst bubbles, but you've got to keep a sense of scale.

                                                        Joe



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