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Writer/Teacher
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Wandering Connecticut
Posts: 9,294
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It's just another attempt to make an economy sedan appear to be a sports car; companies have been doing this for years.
A 17 year-old girl I work with was bragging one day about her "really fast sports car". Sure enough, it was a 2004-ish Altima. I very calmly told her something like, "I don't mean any offense, but an Altima is not a sports car." Her comeback was something about having almost 200hp or something. I explained to her the logic of power-to-weight ratio. She looked at me as though I was speaking Greek.
Apparently she was getting pretty angry, and blurted "well I bet it's a lot faster then whatever you drive!", at which our other coworkers started laughing. At her.
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