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To: Cowman

On a lot of these cars with amazing horsepower and torque figures out of four-hole engines, I’d like to know if they can actually hit and maintain those figures for more than five total minutes in the lifetimes of the engines. OTOH, my early 1980’s German car could hit numbers like that (with more than twice the displacement), and do it for a few hours at a crack on the Autobahn. And then do it again on the way home.


2 posted on 11/03/2015 11:30:45 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: The Antiyuppie
An Audi TDI made today would not only smoke your early 80's car, it would get 40 mpg going a hundred.

And be quiet.

3 posted on 11/03/2015 11:37:14 PM PST by Lakeshark
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