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.

Rob
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