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To: carriage_hill

with 707hp, 8-speed, and unbelievable 0-60 and 1/4-mile times

You, you live on a mountaintop, the driveway is long, steep, snow mud...

The published 0-60 times are better for the AWD Tesla Model 3.
And living on a mountain you regen all the way down!!!
And a much much lower TCO.

IIRC the rice rocket Suburu AWD is also faster.

That said unless you are a drag strip guy, here in DuPage the occasions to use more than a small fraction of the total performance are near ZERO.
I rode performance bikes in the 70s-80s and your car is decidedly faster and the top end/quarter was all but impossible to see. 0-60 is just a long holeshot.

And that is why I still have my beloved BMW Airhead.


92 posted on 08/23/2019 6:51:16 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“the driveway is long, steep, snow mud...”

I don’t, but i can raise/lower the airbagged/struts vehicle 4-6”, and easily go down the drive in 2nd.

I quickly catch Tesla, Porsche and Subaru at 40mph and pass both with ease.

With only 1,544 miles on it, I don’t “hot rod” it much at all; just a burst now and then. The nearby interstates are the only options; street racing at 69 isn’t an option for me.


93 posted on 08/23/2019 7:58:58 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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