Why does the A4 have to be so slow?
01-28-2010, 04:59 PM
#51
How fast were you going is understood to mean "what was the speed you were driving when you were pulled over?" for example. Quick -- were it substituted would not be readily understood or would evoke the response, "you talk funny."
Folks buy, often, quick cars, just as they quote horsepower but grin at torque that comes on at relatively low rpms.
Somewhere, and I can't find it right now, there is a description of these two often interchanged words that concludes by saying "in fill-in-the blank it is the survival of the quickest (not survival of the fastest.")
Folks buy, often, quick cars, just as they quote horsepower but grin at torque that comes on at relatively low rpms.
Somewhere, and I can't find it right now, there is a description of these two often interchanged words that concludes by saying "in fill-in-the blank it is the survival of the quickest (not survival of the fastest.")
01-29-2010, 02:44 PM
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... Quick -- were it substituted would not be readily understood or would evoke the response, "you talk funny."
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Somewhere, and I can't find it right now, there is a description of these two often interchanged words that concludes by saying "in fill-in-the blank it is the survival of the quickest (not survival of the fastest.")
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Somewhere, and I can't find it right now, there is a description of these two often interchanged words that concludes by saying "in fill-in-the blank it is the survival of the quickest (not survival of the fastest.")
In the end though, once you remove the speed limiter out of the equation, a car that has the power for strong acceleration has also the power for reaching high terminal velocity. So in that sense, quick and fast are fortunately related. But thinking a little more, quick could also be referring to handling. So for example I think of a speedy little Miata zig zagging through a tight and twisty mountain road as quick, while a comparatively giaganto Corvette might struggle and seem ponderous on such a course, even though it could easily out-accelerate the Miata on a more open road. So I am back to being a little confused. Acceleration and velocity are so unambiguous
01-29-2010, 04:47 PM
#53
A $600 ECU upgrade can take care of this issue quite easily.
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