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Old 11-10-2003, 07:19 PM
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Default Has anyone really ever thanked the inventor of the turbo.....
Just imagine our cars w/o our turbo weather it be from 150hp to 170hp to all our chipped cars I think we should be grateful that our cars have working turbos that give our cars something that they wouldnt normally have without the inventor of the turbo....that is all.....
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was it saab that started it?
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Default who knows what I meant is that........
just imagine our cars sans the turbo and yet we bitch about plus or minus 5hp. I think we should all thank our turbo gods....
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saab has been doing the turbo 4 cyl thing for like 20 something years.
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Default well first I would thank Henry Ford...
then possibly the developers of oil refining into gasoline....then maybe...

and the list goes on and on and on....
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I know this thread was deep but I didn't know it would go that deep but thanks.
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i know what you meant. i was asking a somewhat related question
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so would that make them the first? i think they were, just not 100%
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Default I don't know if SAAB was first with turbos but it wouldn't surprice me...
... since SAAB is Swedish and almost all good things origin from Sweden
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