Jim,
I was skeptical of that weight too. Would be less than half what my Taurus
weighs. Is it possible you were looking at weight range figures in
kilograms rather than pounds?
Bob
At 05:49 PM 5/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 09:24 PM 5/8/99 -0600, you wrote:
>.... Well I got one of those "super powered"
>>> Hertz Ford Conture as a rental. Book in the car said 170 HP and
>>> weight of around 1400 lb.
>>This must have been a Lotus 7 version of the Contour :). I would
>>have guessed that the Contour would weigh at least twice that.
>>Just teasing a little.
>>
>>Tom Oxner
> The range in the book was actually 1385 to 1440 lbs.
>I guess the tin can metal and plastic that new cars are made
>of weigh a lost less than the boilerplate bodies of old
>England.
>James Barrett Tiger II 351C and others
>
>
Robert L. Palmer
Dept. of AMES, Univ. of Calif., San Diego
rpalmer@ames.ucsd.edu
rpalmer@cts.com
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