Re: French politics

Jeff L wrote:

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Jim Thompson wrote:


On Tue, 08 May 2007 17:46:52 -0700, Joerg
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Eeyore wrote:



Joerg wrote:




Eeyore wrote:



Joerg wrote:




In America cars with automatic transmission typically also have the
feature that you cannot remove the ignition key until you have put

it in

"Park". I think some Saab manuals also have that where the key won't
come out unless in reverse.


Indeed so.

My 9000 is the only model they made in recent decades not to have

that feature > AIUI.



AFAIK that series isn't a full-blooded Viking family. Didn't they

design

and produce those in a joint effort with Renault and another

manufacturer?


The basic bodyshell is shared with several Italian models (Fiat, Alfa

and Lancia). It was

a Guigiaro design. Mechanically it has nothing in common with those

cars.

The later CD and CS models were quite different to look at from the

Italian cars though.

Even to this day it's considered one of the best Saabs ever, the other

contender being the

'original' 900.


Not really out here in the US. The 900 series is considered "the
engineers car". The workmanship is just so much better. Under the hood
it looks as neat as inside a jet engine cowling. No wires slobbering
about etc.


I like my Q45


Yep, Japanese manufacturers sure know how to build quality products.
Even my wife's Corolla has a very clean engine compartment.


I just don't know why people buy expensive 900 Turbos when the speed
limit is 65mph in most places.


Speed limits are for pansies :-P



http://sense.bc.ca/research.htm


Interesting...



And for those whom the insurance agent told "Now if you get one more of
these ticket we can no longer..." I've met one at a client. She said
ticket number seven made her de-facto uninsurable (she drove a souped-up
Camaro).


Here they start giving demerit points, several at a time - ten points and
your out (you may be able to get a special license to go to and from work).


That's how it works in Germany, a point system. They call it "traffic sinners database" or the "Flensburg file" because that's the town where it is located.


I had a 3rd generation 6cyl MPFI 5 speed Camaro with T tops, and miss it a
lot. Contrary to popular belief, it could comfortably sit 4, and if you
could possibly resist the temptation to have a lead foot, it got really good
gas mileage (record was just over 800 highway km on almost 60L of gas, but I
could have done better) - much better then the Accord I drive right now. I
could even fit a *** of plywood cut in half in the hatch. The car would do
0 - 100 kmh in 6 seconds, sometimes 5.5 seconds if conditions were good (I
did tweak the ign timing and fuel injection a bit). Top speed - lets just
say many cars are incapable of going that fast.

Tough as nails to, although I did manage to blow a syncro in the
transmission from really bad abuse, which meant I broke the shift fork
trying to jam it into 2nd gear. This meant 1st gear was also lost a little
while later. It took me two nights to rebuild that and reinstall it. The
syncro was stripped, and the tangs on the shift fork that fit in the gear to
shift it were smashed off!


Ain't it fun to repair a transmission? Done it myself with a friend after his car's reverse gear lost a tooth, back in college. We had to hand-carry the whole gearbox across the German-Dutch border (!). While at it we managed to deplete a crate of Grolsch beer pretty good. Afterwards a couple parts were still on the table. Hmm... But: It worked flawlessly and now down-shifting from 3 to 2 worked with ease. It never did with that Opel/Vauxhall before. So we had improved and cost reduced it but didn't remember how ;-)

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Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com
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