From: bpita@ctp.com (Bob Pitas)
Subject: Re: INFFINITI vs BMW
Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:51:05 GMT

In article <Bx2MLy.J2L@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mchaffee@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Real life?!  Bahahahahah!!) writes:
>mperlman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Marshal "Airborne" Perlman) writes:
>
>>The Q is not supposed to be a BMW...
>
>Dear, Nissan couldn't manage THAT one if they had to....

???  How come all statements of how BMWs are such good cars always just
say "That car could NEVER be as good as a BMW", but they never explain
why.  I have a theory that the reason is that people who drop a load
on a car like a BMW with slow acceleration, soft handling, and spartan
interiors have no way to justify it other than saying "No other car
could be like a BMW".  Of course thats because they got drawn in by some
rhetoric about it being a "driver's car" or whatever bullshit BMW is using
to sell their mediocre cars nowadays.  I've driven a 735, and it was just
about the most boring thing I've ever driven other than a cadillac,
which is supposed to be boring.  I've also roadraced M3s, and flat
out accellerated an M5 and 630csi (European spec) up on the highway,
with no problem.  They don't have acceleration, topspeed, or handling,
nor do they have as many luxury appointments as a Caddy.

>
>>It'd take the Q over a BMW any day..its more FUN TO DRIVE...and
>				     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	Only if your idea of "fun to drive" is going fast.....

What do you consider fun?  Thinking to yourself "I wish I had a car
with half the performance of a Q"?

>
>>it is a hell of a lot more silent too
>
>And I suppose that is a good thing?  Will you think so when your Japanese
>engine starts making death noises and you don't notice?  Or when you don't
>hear a horn as you change lanes into another car?  If you want silence, sit in
>your living room with the TV off.  If you want to dive a car, don't endanger
>the rest of us by eliminating an important form of sensory input.

No, unfortunately you don't understand the previous poster's point.  
Silence is achieved by building the car to extremely tight tolerances,
including engineering the motor to make as little vibrational noise as
possible.  Also the suspension can be engineered to reduce noise without
isolating the driver from road feel.  That's the beauty of the Q, it's
built to such close tolerances, yet with so much HP and Torque, that
it's one of the funnest cars to drive anywhere.
The silence is not created by insulating the driver from all noise, it's
silent because the car doesn't make noise in the first place.  Maybe BMW
could take a lesson or two from Nissan on build quality.

>
>My $0.02 worth
>
>MTC
>"Nothing says lovin' like something from Munich"


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