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From: jon@msunix.UUCP (Jonathan Hue)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: first impressions : Mustang GT
Message-ID: <179@msunix.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 01:27:46 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 01:27:46 1986
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Organization: LMSC-Mechanisms & Servos, Sunnyvale, Ca.
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> >No flames, just a comparison...
> 
> NO COMPARISON , JUST FLAMES
> 
> THE GTI IS THE BIGGEST HUNK OF SHIT ON THE ROAD
> DITTO FOR THE REGULAR RABBIT

It's not a Rabbit, it's a Golf.  The '85 Golf is a different car
from the Rabbit.

> >>Acceleration: 0-60 in 6.7 sec.
> >
> >Ah, well, ah, the GTI is only barely into the single digits...
> BARELY??

Road & Track did 0-60mph in 8.9 seconds.  That's not too shabby.  Then
again my Honda VF500F Interceptor does it in 3.9 seconds, but it's kind of
hard to keep the front wheel on the ground.  BTW, during 0-n mph runs,
upshifts near n mph have a large effect on the time.  If you run
a Ferrari 308GTSi 300 rpm past redline in second gear instead of shifting
into third gear, it cuts about a second off the 0-60 time.

> PROVIDED YOU COULD KEEP THE THING ON THE ROAD ?
> DUE TO UNEQUAL DRIVESHAFT LENGTH THE TORQUE STEER ON RABBITS MAKE THEM
> VERY UNSTABLE. 

The torque steer on the older Rabbits is nonexistant on the Golf.

I liked the reply.  Would other new car owners please post 
their first impressions so we can flame their cars?  I want
to flame a Mitsubishi Starion Turbo a Dodge Colt Turbo (as
Bobby Slayton said, "A sh**ty car that goes fast")  I'll even let
you flame my '84 Scirocco (just another Rabbit underneath :^)).


			Jonathan Hue
			LMSC-Mechanisms & Servos

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