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12-14-2007, 05:11 PM
Before the highway war, count your horses. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112901758.html)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/08_Accord_EX-L_Rear_Corner.jpgWarren Brown – Washington Post – Dec. 2, 2007
Warren, I have respected your writing for a while now but after reading this trash, I can only say one thing. You sir, should not be allowed a drivers license let alone drive :angry: -- Ed.
NEW YORK -- Assumptions can turn you into a donkey on the highway. Consider the 2008 Honda Accord EX-L sedan.
It looks and feels like a more expensive automobile. Styling is excellent. Fit and finish are impeccable. The front-wheel-drive car is loaded with amenities, including one of the most useful onboard navigation systems in the business.
The Honda Accord is safe. With its Advanced Compatibility Engineering body structure, brilliantly designed to limit crash energy transmitted to the passenger cabin, it arguably is safer than comparable Volvo automobiles.
Now the garbage
As a result, I entered expressway ramps with a poor assessment of horsepower available to keep aggressive drivers at bay, making it difficult for me to make a safe and honorable exit...
I was turned into a donkey by lazy acceptance of appearances...
In highway horsepower wars, fuel efficiency takes the rearmost seat. Muscle counts in a high-speed world where 200-horsepower engines are common fare and where brute force determines road share...
Worse, I had done nothing in terms of vehicle load and driving style to better accommodate the performance limits of the smaller engine...
I tried to use the surge strategy -- stomping the accelerator, getting something of a boost and appearing to make progress. But it was always too little too late. Cars and trucks with more horsepower soon crowded my tail and forced me into another lane...
Realizing that there was no way of winning the fight with motorized might, I turned to diplomacy -- entering left lanes only when they were clear of traffic and getting out when faster traffic approached...
Some drivers viewed my diplomatic turnabout as weakness. They pointedly gunned their engines when I politely allowed them to pass...
I would like to tell you that the experience changed me, made me a kinder, more loving and understanding driver. But that would be a lie. The next Accord I take into battle on Interstate 95 and the New Jersey Turnpike will be equipped with Honda's available 3.5-liter, 268-horsepower V-6. In defense of my personal driving interests and security, I will kick some tailpipe. … http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112901758.html
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/08_Accord_EX-L_Rear_Corner.jpgWarren Brown – Washington Post – Dec. 2, 2007
Warren, I have respected your writing for a while now but after reading this trash, I can only say one thing. You sir, should not be allowed a drivers license let alone drive :angry: -- Ed.
NEW YORK -- Assumptions can turn you into a donkey on the highway. Consider the 2008 Honda Accord EX-L sedan.
It looks and feels like a more expensive automobile. Styling is excellent. Fit and finish are impeccable. The front-wheel-drive car is loaded with amenities, including one of the most useful onboard navigation systems in the business.
The Honda Accord is safe. With its Advanced Compatibility Engineering body structure, brilliantly designed to limit crash energy transmitted to the passenger cabin, it arguably is safer than comparable Volvo automobiles.
Now the garbage
As a result, I entered expressway ramps with a poor assessment of horsepower available to keep aggressive drivers at bay, making it difficult for me to make a safe and honorable exit...
I was turned into a donkey by lazy acceptance of appearances...
In highway horsepower wars, fuel efficiency takes the rearmost seat. Muscle counts in a high-speed world where 200-horsepower engines are common fare and where brute force determines road share...
Worse, I had done nothing in terms of vehicle load and driving style to better accommodate the performance limits of the smaller engine...
I tried to use the surge strategy -- stomping the accelerator, getting something of a boost and appearing to make progress. But it was always too little too late. Cars and trucks with more horsepower soon crowded my tail and forced me into another lane...
Realizing that there was no way of winning the fight with motorized might, I turned to diplomacy -- entering left lanes only when they were clear of traffic and getting out when faster traffic approached...
Some drivers viewed my diplomatic turnabout as weakness. They pointedly gunned their engines when I politely allowed them to pass...
I would like to tell you that the experience changed me, made me a kinder, more loving and understanding driver. But that would be a lie. The next Accord I take into battle on Interstate 95 and the New Jersey Turnpike will be equipped with Honda's available 3.5-liter, 268-horsepower V-6. In defense of my personal driving interests and security, I will kick some tailpipe. … http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/29/AR2007112901758.html