RE: Stealth (Non-Dak) Was: MPG

From: Ayotte, Glen (ayotteg@espn.com)
Date: Sun Sep 27 1998 - 23:52:16 EDT


I remember the commercial. I think the floor was slick concrete, real
smooth. Awesome......

Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger [mailto:stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu]
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 1998 11:23 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: DML: Stealth (Non-Dak) Was: MPG

At 11:09 PM 9/27/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>> Well I dunno about that. :-) I guarantee my old VR-4 would absolutely
>>waste a stock Dak (to any speed). AWD viscous limited slip meant that
>>the only time I could ever spin the tires was in the snow. Rain or dry,
>>it didn't matter; it just bit and took off. I suspect the same could be
>>said of the Eclipse and Talon turbos.
>>
>> -Jon-
>
>
>Hey Jon -
>
>Remember when they first came out with the Stealth ? Dodge had this
>bitchin' commercial with a Stealth sitting quietly in a garage . The camera
>moves to the rear of the car pointing towards the front , the door opens ,
>and then it sounded like they wound it up to at least 6 grand and let the
>clutch fly . That was the only time that I ever saw either a 3000 or a
>Stealth AWD burn the tires . That was one of the coolest commercials too .
>

  Nope, I never saw that one. Come to think of it, I don't recall
seeing
ANY ads for the Stealth/3000GT. Sounds pretty cool though. :-) I did
spin a tire in the dry once, when I was coming out of a parking lot and
onto the road at a high rate of speed, I caught a (tiny) bit of air
as I was making the turn. (The suspesnsion and drivetrain in that thing
was idiot-proof. You would REALLY have to push it to get it to do
anything
screwy.) Anyway, I got some slight spin out of one of the tires then,
just
because it didn't have much to grip.) :-)
  
  Ummm, Dak relevance: My Dak's suspension is nowhere near as nice. :-)

                                               -Jon-

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