Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/28

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Subject: [Leica] Further adventures of a completely screwed up guy: long and occasionally on topic
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Sat Jan 28 23:24:00 2006
References: <63CD409E-936D-45FB-AE56-6E23CB2D9470@shaw.ca>
 
Well said. Nobody makes Sports Cars any more, they are all overweight  
2 seat limos. The nearest after Lotus and Noble are Porsche, who  
still make lightish cars but the rest are overweight, even all the  
Ferraris bar one. The fashion is power, but whilst extra power will  
get back the acceleration lost to the weight, and give a pointless  
increase in never-used top speed, the nimbleness, handling and good  
brakes are forever lost :-(
Even the Elise is suffering, the Toyota engined one has been "pimped"  
as you put it and is about 15% heavier than the K-series car, sad,  
acceleration and top speed notwithstanding.
Frank


On 29 Jan, 2006, at 04:37, John Collier wrote:

> gave the big thumbs up to the Lotus Elise. Why would anyone buy  
> anything else if you are in the market for a sports car? Does  
> anyone else actually even make a sports car anymore?
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