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jim beam wrote:
> babbler wrote:
>> jim beam wrote:
>>
>> look at subaru - the wrx sti has 305hp right off the
>>> showroom floor.
>>
>> Nice, that would be useful to tow the boat. Not sure what else it
>> would be useful for unless you lived in Nevada and took a run down the
>> salt flats full speed before the explosion.
>
> eh? weight for weight, which has the better 1/4 mile - a 300 hp car or
> a 200 hp car? and subaru win rallies all over the world with this
> vehicle - hardly possible if it can't handle that output.

Great, and I would love to have a 1001hp bugatti veyron, but other than
the best 1/4 mile ever (street racing=illegal+deadly) or running rallies
all over the world (you travel the world to be in rallies?)

Then what else is so much horsepower good for? Going from one stop light
to the next? Getting nailed by a state trooper on the interstate and
paying through the nose on your isurance premium? Doing a 1/4 mile
somewhere (which is illegal), towing a boat? Doing road trips with 55mph
limit on the highways? Hauling 3 very obese passengers during carpool time?

jim beam <spamvortex@bad.example.net> wrote in news:WI-
dnVYJpNvrTyHanZ2dnUVZ_tWtnZ2d@speakeasy.net:

> babbler wrote:
>> jim beam wrote:
>>
>> look at subaru - the wrx sti has 305hp right off the
>>> showroom floor.
>>
>> Nice, that would be useful to tow the boat. Not sure what else it would
>> be useful for unless you lived in Nevada and took a run down the salt
>> flats full speed before the explosion.
>
> eh? weight for weight, which has the better 1/4 mile - a 300 hp car or
> a 200 hp car? and subaru win rallies all over the world with this
> vehicle - hardly possible if it can't handle that output.
>

I doubt the Subaru WRX-STI clutch and transmission are designed to handle
TOWING.

and it's still only a 2.5 liter motor.

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net

Jim Yanik wrote:
> jim beam <spamvortex@bad.example.net> wrote in news:WI-
> dnVYJpNvrTyHanZ2dnUVZ_tWtnZ2d@speakeasy.net:
>
>> babbler wrote:
>>> jim beam wrote:
>>>
>>> look at subaru - the wrx sti has 305hp right off the
>>>> showroom floor.
>>> Nice, that would be useful to tow the boat. Not sure what else it would
>>> be useful for unless you lived in Nevada and took a run down the salt
>>> flats full speed before the explosion.
>> eh? weight for weight, which has the better 1/4 mile - a 300 hp car or
>> a 200 hp car? and subaru win rallies all over the world with this
>> vehicle - hardly possible if it can't handle that output.
>>
>
> I doubt the Subaru WRX-STI clutch and transmission are designed to handle
> TOWING.
>
> and it's still only a 2.5 liter motor.
>

http://www.subaru.co.uk/Subaru_co_uk...?menuid=M1M1M3

braked trailer - 1200kg, unbraked - 750kg. 1200 = 2640lbs.

i lived in europe for a while and over there, lots of people run
trailers with their tiny little 1300cc fwd econoboxes. and nobody seems
to have much of a problem with it. the thing about trailers here is
that they're unbraked - that's much more of a problem than worrying
about whether the vehicle will make it up the hill. we have this odd
concept of it being essential to drag up a hill without changing gear.
the europeans don't, and frankly, i think the euros are right on that one.

babbler wrote:
> jim beam wrote:
>> babbler wrote:
>>> jim beam wrote:
>>>
>>> look at subaru - the wrx sti has 305hp right off the
>>>> showroom floor.
>>>
>>> Nice, that would be useful to tow the boat. Not sure what else it
>>> would be useful for unless you lived in Nevada and took a run down
>>> the salt flats full speed before the explosion.
>>
>> eh? weight for weight, which has the better 1/4 mile - a 300 hp car
>> or a 200 hp car? and subaru win rallies all over the world with this
>> vehicle - hardly possible if it can't handle that output.
>
> Great, and I would love to have a 1001hp bugatti veyron, but other than
> the best 1/4 mile ever (street racing=illegal+deadly) or running rallies
> all over the world (you travel the world to be in rallies?)
>
> Then what else is so much horsepower good for? Going from one stop light
> to the next? Getting nailed by a state trooper on the interstate and
> paying through the nose on your isurance premium? Doing a 1/4 mile
> somewhere (which is illegal), towing a boat? Doing road trips with 55mph
> limit on the highways? Hauling 3 very obese passengers during carpool time?

fine. buy a ford focus and be happy then.