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Subject:Re: Gas question, seriously folks
From:Al Knoll
Date:Sun, 15 Dec 2013 12:43:53 -0800

>
> Actually David, it is a high performance car.
>

> It has sleeping, eating, birdwatching, skiing, poppygathering, moseying,
> lookylooing, leafpeeping, fishing, in a "kompakt" performance package,
> often imitated, rarely duplicated.
>
Add a modern motor and it quietly becomes a Q-ship.  A tardis with chutzpah!

Mosey on, enjoy the ride, nothing to prove, a lot to be seen on the High
Definition windscreen.  I do.

Pensionerd.

> What is wrong with driving within the capability of the vehicle?  I have
> never experienced pinging with my '91 Campmobile with 2.1 Waterboxer
> engine.  But then, I let it slow down on a grade, downshifting the manual
> transmission when I feel it start to lug.  I drive at 58 mph generally on
> the highway, and I let the wind slow me down if necessary.  I just don't
> see the need to try to drive the thing like it is a "performance" car.  For
> that matter, I don't see the need for "performance cars."
>
> David McNeely
>