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From: prophet@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Dyno ratings and Horsepower
Message-ID: <6878@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-May-84 21:15:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  3 21:15:19 1984
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Stuart Lewis mentions in his article about horsepower specifications that the
Federal Trade Commission requires a manufacturer to guarantee that every  car
made will at least meet and possibly exceed the rating specified by the manu-
facturer.  This is true, but have you ever seen the following:

Prices and specifications are subject to change without notice to the buyer..

This means that a company does not LEGALLY have to deliver the same specs  or
even the same engineering design as what is shown in various literature  that
manufacturers furnish on their products.

This happens quite frequently in Audio components, but I doubt that it happens
as often with automobiles.

                     Dennis


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