Scott Gardner wrote:
> After all, if our
> cars are so ideal in their stock form, why are there so many threads
> on the list about:
<el snippo>
> The list goes on. Keep in mind that not all of the above are
> strictly about improving performance. Several of them address known
> and accepted shortcomings (or at the very least, compromises) in the
> original design.
I couldn't agree with you more because you made some great points about
most
new car owners and new cars in general. However, this last part strikes a
common
chord with everything automotive that lives in my soul: No matter how great a
car is,
it could always do it better. I've never heard of a car that does everything
so well
there was nothing that could be changed on it. Heck, even Mazda sells a kit to
swap a
302 into a Miata. By the time a car is refined to the point that it's
mechanically
pleasurable in it's genre, time has passed it by (see Dodge Daytona). What
makes a
car good is relative. I like my cars to corner like a wheelbarrow, but my
granfather
expects his Lincoln to roll and wallow in the turns. I like a suspension so
stiff
that I feel cigarette butts when I drive over them, while my grandfather could
hit a
gaggle of geese and never feel it. Along those lines, there will never be a
car that
does everything perfectly and makes everybody totally happy. No matter what I
do with
my MGB, I'll always think that there could be something more that I could do
with it,
whether that's a canvas top or a V-8 conversion. Oh, wait a minute...That's
how I
feel about all of my vehicles...Silly me!
--
Michael S. Lishego
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Elementary Education Major,
English Minor, Class of 1999
R.A. of Winston-Salem Hall
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