Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpa!olds From: olds@ihlpa.UUCP (Mondeville) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: RE:first impressions: mustang GT Message-ID: <1115@ihlpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 18:32:00 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpa.1115 Posted: Thu Feb 13 18:32:00 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Feb-86 02:27:37 EST References: <559@drutx.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 100 > > in reply to: > > > From: vuser@druhi.UUCP (GerardenC) > > Subject: first impressions: mustang GT > > Message-ID: <116@druhi.UUCP> > > Keywords: rabbit shit, GTI excrement, GOLF feces > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Yes, I'm already very impressed, can't wait to hear what this guy has to > say...... > > > >I thought my reply to the original Mustang posting was reasonable -- > > >am I alone in thinking this? And I thought stuff like Chuck's reply > > >went away with net.flame! > > You're not alone Tom. Your reply was reasonable, and his reply should > have been in net.flame (or better yet, flushed down net.toilet). > > > > > in reply to: > > > > >Message-ID: <7812@watrose.UUCP> > > >Reply-To: tohaapanen@watrose.UUCP (Tom Haapanen) > > > > > > net.flame went away, but I have not. It makes me sick to see vw fanatics > > cluttering up the net with the diatribe on the merits of owning a VW. > ^^^^^^^^ > First of all, why don't you look up the word diatribe in the dictionary, > YOU are the one cluttering up the net with diatribe. Tom was in no way > being abusive or bitter in his comparison -- as he said, "NO FLAMES - just > a comparison." If it makes you sick to see VW fanatics, or any other > fanatics on the net, use your 'N' key. Furthermore, if you want to give > any creditability to what you post to the net, try to state *your > opinion* in a civilized and intelligent manner. Talk about fanatics. > > > These fanatics think that vw's are sports cars. The rabbit started out > > as an economy car, they put flashy interiors in it (more weight), wider > > tires, renamed it, a little more power, and TA-DA call it a sports car. > > Remember YOU are the one comparing it to a mustang GT. I dare say that on > > a real (road racing)track the GT would blow the rabbit off. please don't > > feed me shit about "what the magazine says" . Go ahead convince me that > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Oh, I see, I should believe *you* and consider *your* limited experience > with this car verses that of professional drivers from several > magazines. Right, sure Chuck, anything else you would like me to believe > while you're at it? > > I hope that some day you will discover that the way to enlighten a group > of people, such as readers of the net, is not by posting an article that > sounds as if it comes from a crazed high school student, but by responding > in a calm, rational, intelligent manner. Grow up. > > Enough said, let's not turn this into net.flame. > > > > \tom haapanen > > > watmath!watrose!haapanen > > > > chuck gerarden > > ihnp4!drutx!druhi!vuser > > jim bryant > ...!ihnp4!drutx!jimb This is to reply to all you foolish gti<<<<(notice little letters I give this car no respect at all)people.You have some nerve trying to tell people not to flame your letters.If the oringinal author would'nt have been so damn stupid as to compare that bullshit gti to a real machine such as a mustang GT,this would have all been avoided.Now lets skip all the magazine hogwash because it doesn't mean a damn thing ON THE ROAD.Lets see that gti shit really try to beat a mustang at a stoplight or on a nice twisty road.It couldn't do it.In real world,the single most important thing in `street' competition is HORSEPOWER.How the hell do you gti people think you can outhandle......blah...blah...blah a high performance V8?, you won't have the chance because the mustang or any other HI-PO V8 will have dusted your butt and you'll be to busy crying to do any driving.90% of your driving is done on open highway or city streets, not on a racing course.So all those handling specs attained on the `track' will not be used on the street. Acceleration however will.Have you gti people ever gotten up enough guts to challange a GT or something comparable on the street???.If you did I'm sure you would'nt have posted your silly attempts to justify owning an underpowered slug such as a gti.I by the way do not own a GT,lest you think my opinion is biased.I drive a '76 Trans-Am,and I love see you gti,bmw saab,..etc..fools try to beat my 4bbl 400 T.A..I'ts almost more fun than real competetion. I blow you folks away so bad,you don't even care to finish the race,and you're to chicken to pull up next to me again(and see me laughing my head off). You never even bother to find out if you can out handle me or not. Most of you gti people probably don't race your cars anyway. The bottom line is don't compare your gti to cars outside it's class. The mustang GT and all comparable cars including mine are DEFINITELY out of your class. Eugene G. Mandeville AT&T Bell Labs ihnp4!ihlpa!olds