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From: ziegler@lzmi.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Spitfires, Corvettes, RX7s and handling
Message-ID: <110@lzmi.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Sep-83 11:41:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  2 11:41:56 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Sep-83 06:04:58 EDT
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How can a Spitfire or RX7 outhandle a Corvette when all the magazine
tests rate the Corvette superior?  That's a good question.  Perhaps
in the incident I mentioned the RX7 driver was indeed more skilled,
although the Corvette appeared to me to have reached its handling
limits.

I have driven both Spitfires and Corvettes, and my experience tells
me that the Spitfire handles better, so I would be suspicious of
those tests in the magazines you mentioned.  HOWEVER, I MAY NOT BE A
FAIR JUDGE OF SUCH THINGS, SINCE I HAVE DRIVEN MY SPITFIRE MUCH MORE
THAN I HAVE EVER DRIVEN A VETTE.  In general, I give much less
credence to magazine tests and manufacturers' specs than I give to
my own experience.  (And that doesn't just apply to cars.)  Also,
the tests you mentioned were probably on newer Vettes than the ones
I've driven and the one mentioned above, and they've made a lot of
improvements recently, so I've been told.

In any case, if there's anyone out there who has driven both cars
extensively (>1000 miles) I'd like to see your ideas.  Anyone else's
opinion is worth no more than mine and, like my opinions, is not
worth discussing on the net.

By the way, let's leave off with the "Eat my dust" remarks.  I've
already mentioned that they don't impress me and they lend nothing
to the brilliance of your repartee.  I'd like to discuss driving,
not practise flinging epithets.

		Joe Ziegler
		...hogpc!pegasus!lzmi!ziegler