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2013-08-15 Thread Michael Canfield
So you would be good with an electric car as long as it has an 8 track player to make Camaro noises when you go? Gotcha. Mike On Aug 14, 2013 7:45 PM, Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com wrote: I don't like the sound of modern engines. Too many sound milk-toast Asian copy cat. You know, the

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: OT anyone have experience and opinion on late model trucks?

2013-08-15 Thread Alex Chamberlain
On Aug 15, 2013 8:27 AM, Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com wrote: So you would be good with an electric car as long as it has an 8 track player to make Camaro noises when you go? Gotcha. That's pretty much what you get when you buy a new BMW: the turbo four in the base models doesn't

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: OT anyone have experience and opinion on late model trucks?

2013-08-15 Thread Kevin Kraly
the engine computer sends synthesized vroom-vroom noises to the stereo when you hit the gas. Really? That just sounds so silly! It should be blasted through a PA system so that people OUTSIDE the car get to participate in the illusion as well. :D Kevin in LaPorte Colorado, soon to be

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2013-08-15 Thread Randy Bennell
On 15/08/2013 1:42 PM, Kevin Kraly wrote: the engine computer sends synthesized vroom-vroom noises to the stereo when you hit the gas. Really? That just sounds so silly! It should be blasted through a PA system so that people OUTSIDE the car get to participate in the illusion as well. :D

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: OT anyone have experience and opinion on late model trucks?

2013-08-15 Thread Mountain Man
Mike wrote: So you would be good with an electric car... I would do electric just fine. Living with limits is part of the fun of life. 35 miles/charge? or whatever? - so what. It takes strategy and planning to do stuff, not unlike 3-pedal car. 30 years ago I read EHV News - magazine for

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: OT anyone have experience and opinion on late model trucks?

2013-08-14 Thread Mountain Man
I don't like the sound of modern engines. Too many sound milk-toast Asian copy cat. You know, the small displacement, quiet, high revving sound as people push the pedal to the floor. I prefer an old classic push-rod engine sound, perhaps with carburetor indicating definite ooomph, not

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: OT anyone have experience and opinion on late model trucks?

2013-08-12 Thread Jim Cathey
Unfortunately American diesels are LOUD. The pickups are absurdly loud Que? They've all gotten extremely quiet in the last decade. to begin with and then the idiots dork them out with big stacks and whatnot and just turn up the fuel until they belch black smoke... Yeah, there's way too

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2013-08-12 Thread Allan Streib
Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net writes: Unfortunately American diesels are LOUD. The pickups are absurdly loud Que? They've all gotten extremely quiet in the last decade. The loud pickups, which are common around here, are the result of aftermarket performance exhausts and chipped engine

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2013-08-12 Thread Randy Bennell
On 12/08/2013 2:03 AM, Jim Cathey wrote: Unfortunately American diesels are LOUD. The pickups are absurdly loud Que? They've all gotten extremely quiet in the last decade. to begin with and then the idiots dork them out with big stacks and whatnot and just turn up the fuel until they belch

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2013-08-12 Thread Curt Raymond
: OT anyone have experience and opinion     on late    model trucks? Message-ID: 539ecb86-031d-11e3-92dd-000502d9a...@windwireless.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Unfortunately American diesels are LOUD. The pickups are absurdly loud Que?  They've all gotten extremely

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2013-08-12 Thread Randy Bennell
@okiebenz.com Subject: Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: OT anyone have experience and opinion on latemodel trucks? Message-ID: 539ecb86-031d-11e3-92dd-000502d9a...@windwireless.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Unfortunately American diesels are LOUD. The pickups are absurdly loud

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2013-08-12 Thread dseretakis
The American V8 gas pick-ups are also very loud. And many of the morons who drive them take advantage of that fact. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2013, at 12:15 PM, Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca wrote: On 12/08/2013 2:03 AM, Jim Cathey wrote: Unfortunately American diesels are LOUD. The

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: OT anyone have experience and opinion on late model trucks?

2013-08-12 Thread Randy Bennell
I would not say that my truck is loud. It has a huge muffler. I think the loud ones are likely folks who have changed the muffler to a louder one deliberately sort of like the Harley bunch. Randy On 12/08/2013 3:16 PM, dsereta...@yahoo.com wrote: The American V8 gas pick-ups are also very

Re: [MBZ] (SPAM?) Re: OT anyone have experience and opinion on late model trucks?

2013-08-12 Thread Alex Chamberlain
On Aug 12, 2013 1:16 PM, dsereta...@yahoo.com wrote: The American V8 gas pick-ups are also very loud. My '04 Suburban with the gas V-8 and stock exhaust is no louder than the average car. I think a lot of people put glasspacks on them, though, from the sound. Alex