At 9/2/2005 07:16 PM, Tom Young wrote: >Well, you know, the lust for massive, roaring, high speed, high acceleration >cars (a lust carefully cultivated by the automobile industry) isn't going to >go away overnight. (What macho American male is going to want to drive >around in a vehicle that won't accelerate to 60mph in 5.7 seconds and go >120mph: That's what Detroit thought back in '73, even after the first gas 'crisis'. It wasn't until they saw all those Honda's & Toyota's out there that they realized something might have changed. FWIW in '73 I was sitting in those gas lines (on an even or odd rationing day) in a '59 VW bus with the mighty 36hp engine.
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