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09-17-2014, 10:04 PM | #254 | |
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An Accord is designed around a bottom line, mass appeal, and tailored to highest volume model. You may have a fast Accord, but it's still an Accord. Or, wait, are you borrowing your mom's Accord. I can't tell them apart (I kid). With the V6 Camaro, the reason why the platform matters is you have something you know is designed to handle more than you can give it, so you can comfortably push it, and it's very stable at high speed highway driving. You get all the design benefits of a car that costs much more, not paying more to drive a faster version of car not designed with performance in mind. Look at the MazdaSpeed3. You take a car designed to be small and economical, drop in as much power as you can, and you have torque steer that is sending people into guardrails. Also, your view seems centered around racing people in a sleeper...which is not something that interests me. So, since I wouldn't be "smoking" Camaros at street lights, I'd just be sitting there, driving an Accord. |
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I just took issue with the "no" oart...it's like I said prior, "All show and some go" |
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09-17-2014, 11:48 PM | #256 |
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"All show and no go."
Funny...people don't say that about my 1LS. John B.
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09-18-2014, 06:43 AM | #257 | |
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I see his point on this. He probably can't afford a second car and doesn't want a grocery getter. I drove a 71 Barracuda to school, but when I finally got tired of dealing with dding a hot rod ended up buying a Ford Ranger for the commute. He doesn't want to do that, so he chose a car in the middle.
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Incidentally, it's a rather narrow view to look at straight line acceleration as the only measure of a car's performance. I won't go into detail here, but I'd choose to own a 14 second car equipped a certain way over a 12 second car identically equipped except for one difference. Every single time. Quote:
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09-18-2014, 08:30 AM | #259 |
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no...11 soon to be 12 pages of nothingness
from the OP upset his car was called slow. to the typical V6 vs V8 debate. then we spent yesterday on the classification of the Camaro being a sports car or not. then the embarrassing debate on which is faster between a Camry or V6 Camaro. followed by convincing each other what is considered "fast" anymore now.
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09-18-2014, 08:37 AM | #261 |
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maybe trying to set a record for most topics and pages in a single thread ever?
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09-18-2014, 09:07 AM | #262 |
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09-18-2014, 09:21 AM | #263 |
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09-18-2014, 09:25 AM | #264 |
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Because?
EDIT: I mean, I get that the subject of V6 vs V8 has been beat to death on this board, but that isn't what this topic was about (per se). It was about a comment from a non-owner...and I think it actually sparked an interesting discussion about what qualifies as "no go". |
09-18-2014, 09:32 AM | #265 |
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All we need now is a hybrid underpowered V8 in the Camaro then WE can all have someone to bash. Man I wonder what the V8 vs V6 threads would look like then.
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09-18-2014, 10:31 AM | #266 |
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The difference between the V6 & V8 for me is the amount of jail time I don't serve. Love my Camaro, handles the road really well and gets to the speed limit in a hurry.
I don't really care what anyone else thinks about it.
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