Totalitarians who called themslves socialist.
If you believe the right-wing press.
Krw does have his fixed ideas - most of them are wrong but he has no way of finding this out.
Only by the kind of brain-dead right-wingers that include krw, who is more nearly brain-dead than most them.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
The virtue of capitalism is that greedy people have to compete by
*pleasing* customers.
How about regular visits to a bookie?
Musk's bitch at work. Amazing, even for a fanboi.
Really? I know of several business areas where customer satisfaction is very low and not improving, rather getting worse.
You are confusing capitalism with competition.
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Tesla drivers seem to think in terms of alternating bursts of acceleration and deceleration. I guess some people enjoy that, but I know that a lot of passengers don't. Maybe they seldom have passengers.
I have two driving modes; mine is pretty dynamic, but I tone the jerk (1st derivative of acceleration, not a synonym for me) way down when my wife is onboard. I know some guys who get sick from jerk too.
Funny, when she is driving the Audi she enjoys flooring it, like getting onto a freeway. It's the 3.2L non-turbo V6 and really pushes a bod into the seat.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
r in over 25 years. Only trucks. The last car was a high powered, retired S herriff's cruiser. I've owned smaller cars, but I am tall, and they were pa inful to drive. Even some trucks are too small for me to drive. My favorite car was a restored 1966 red GTO that could wrap the speedometer back to th e zero pin.
uty three speed automatic transmission in it, and modified the drive train and chassis to make it fit, in place of the two speed Powerglide transmissi on. Gasoline was 8.9 cents a gallon for high test, on base, and it wouldn't hold three dollars worth of gasoline.
a legroom to be able to get in and out without help. You can stick your ele ctric skateboards where the sun doesn't shine, along with all your lies.
ompared to a Tesla? My model X which has plenty of room and carries up to
6 passengers will still stomp on anything you've ever owned. It won't wrap the speedo needle though, doesn't have one.Show me a highway you can merge onto without using the accelerator. The re generative braking is great so you can avoid hitting the car in front of yo u when his brake lights come on without wasting all that power as heat. Wo rks well at stop lights too. In fact, works where everywhere. So much smo other and easier than moving your foot to the brakes pedal every time.
Yeah. That must be an awesome feeling... lol! Now try it in an EV where y ou don't get the all the engine noise and it's amazing! No valve train noi se, no turbo windup delay. Just pure, smooth, instant power.
It just seems so crude to think of all the moving parts in an ICE.
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Yes, that is a _fact_. Customers have a choice where they spend their money. Just because you communists insist that you know better than everyone else how _they_ should spend _their_ money, doesn't mean it's true.
Yet customers insist on buying from them. I wonder why that is?
You're totally confused. ...about the whole world. Lefties are.
Rick C wrote in news:f1dfae1c-93ba- snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
Hahahahahaha... What a joke.
He has obviously never been in a '60s or '70s era muscle car, much less one of the hundreds of HP more modern versions of a muscle car.
3.2 whole liters? WOW! NOT!
It's a lot lighter than some rusty old muscle car. The AWD will run away from any 2WD thing in snow or rain. I can flip down 1/3 of the rear seat and plop a couple pairs of skis inside in a few seconds, and toss the boots and parkas and poles in the hatchback. The form factor is great for driving and parking in the city too. The ungoverned top speed is claimed to be 156 MPH.
July 4, 2011. Epic year for snow. And mud.
I can transport a file cabinet or a modest table and chair or two, inside or using the rack. Or a full sheet of plywood. Try that in a GTO!
Pity they discontinued the unblown 3.2 engine. Most everything now is the whiney, peakey 2.0 turbo.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
Who would let him place any bet? He would just deny it, when he lost the bet, and refuse to pay the bookie.
OTOH, that could prove to be interesting...
May he live long enough to have many, many health issues, then be put under Nurse Ratched's care!
A 66 GTO is worth a lot more than your car, so why ruin the interior?
That GTO was 400HP. It wasn't a family car, or a delivery truck. It was the best selling Pontiac, ever built. One of mine was bright red, with the ori ginal Red Stripe Tigerpaw tires It was comfortable to drive, and quite stab le on bad roads. If you've never driven one, you have no idea what they wer e like. The bucket seats were great, and it handled like a dream. I bought it cheap, after the engine was blown, at Edgewater Speedway, near Cincinnat i, Ohio. It had the stock 389YS GTO special engine, but it was replaced wit h a 421 C.I.D. that I built for it. I got my draft notice, the day I finish ed rebuilding the engine, and installing a bigger transmission. It was grea t, getting my hands greasy, after eight or more hours working on Electronic s. You should try it some time. Not just simple repairs, but modifying the drive tray, the chassis, and even the interior. I was told that the rear de ck din't have room for two speakers. I made them fit, then I made a new lin e for it. I bought a NOS Buick AM/FM/FM Stereo radio, and ordered Delco par ts to make it fit the dash's opening. I replaced the dash, because the fool who blew the engine had used a jig saw to cut hole for gauges. I replaced it with one with the OEM gauges. I was a 20 year old, and I loved the look of the car, It ran like a scaleded dog, I still miss it, even though I had to let go of it 30+ years ago.
That's what trucks are for. I could haul your car inside my Stepvan, and ha ve enough room left to walk around it. In low gear, the top speed saw 5MPH, and it stayed on the icy roads when the 4W drive vehicles were sitting in the ditches. I hauled 4'x12' sheets of drywall inside that truck, and it wa s an electronics shop on wheels. I still have the workbench from it, in my four car garage.
BTW, that GTO stayed on the road when I was stationed in Alabama in 1973. I passed hundreds of cars sitting in the ditches on my way to the airfield w here I worked.
I was certified for emergency drive conditions in Alaska, later that year. I passed the tests, the first try. If I was interested in Skiing, there was enough snow, year round. They didn't plow the roads, they used a road grad er to turn it into pack ice. The main highway was built during WW II, and w as still laughingly called a gravel road. The 'gravel' was the size of your fist, nd a very bad road for the couple warm months. It was like a newly p oured concrete road, once all the gaps were pack tightly with snow. It also let you make the trip without losing all the paint from the front and side s of the vehicle.
telsa owners are the BMW owners of the EV world.
I like it when I see a BMW illegally parked with the dealer stickers still on it gotta start working on that BMW-driver character early!
Government healthcare would be enough.
John Larkin wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
You have obviously never seen a 350HP small block V8 pull the front wheels of an AMC Gremlin a foot and a half off the ground at the start line.
You talk about weight. I talk about power. So despite the double weight, dufus.... those muscle cars could STILL set you back in the seat better than your shit V6. You obviously have no clue, but seem to be full of stupid irrelavent comments like "rusty" and "old".
John Larkin wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
"blower" and "turbo" are two different things in IC engines.
A blower is a supercharger, and "blown" engines are 'supercharged' A 'turbo' is referred to as "turbocharged" and the short nickname of "blown" is for supercharged engines, not turbocharged engines. They are not "blown", they are "turbocharged', as there never was a moniker given to that method, and there IS for superchargers.
So, "non-turbocharged" is right. "unblown' is not, UNLESS they had a supercharged model as well.
VW owns Audi and VW had a supercharger design "scroll type" that may have been used also by Audi.
As I said, put any of those things in mud or snow and they will be helpless. I spend a lot more time driving in the mountains than on a drag strip.
Find me a Gremlin that's not rusty and old. Or that even still runs. It's got to be one of the ugliest vehicles ever invented. The original concept was, appropriately, sketched on an air sickness bag.
"Time magazine noted two definitions for gremlin: "Defined by Webster's as 'a small gnome held to be responsible for malfunction of equipment.' American Motors' definition: 'a pal to its friends and an ogre to its enemies.'"
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
John Larkin wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
aNice try at a sidestep.
Your post referred to being set back in the seat.
You have this unending problem with accepting anything.
It is particularly glaring when you get shown to be in error.
I never made any such assertion here, but you do seem to have suddenly sidestepped the subject to declare your little shitbox to be so much better.
I'd bet that a $WD version of a Tesla would drive circles around your "mountain climber" Audi. Hell, a Tesla with winter tires would/could/does.
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