Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Stunning New Porsche 918 Spyder - Another Hybrid

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

The Raucous Sound of Silence? (with apologies to the Chevy book) - hark back 
to late the 60's and the STP turbines.  As witnessed when Andy Granetelli 
signed my pig at Little Joe's restaurant at the 1969 press meeting after 
Mario won the Indy 500 - - - Best Whooooshes, Doug.
Alas
DOUG
PS - recently as a few years ago, the IRL made the mundane V8 sound change 
to a flat crank engine and the howl of the late Ferrari V8's 308's, 360's, 
430's and so forth.  Indy once again played host to sounds of interesting 
engines.

PPS - at the December 1968 Rex Mays race at Riverside International Raceway, 
near the last lap - Mario had jumped into Joe Leonard's STP 4WD Lotus wedge 
turbine (a complex set of rules in motion to garner the coveted Number 1 
USAC number for next year) managed to T-Bone the only other STP turbine, 
driven by team mate Art Pollard, in ever so tight high speed 180 degree last 
turn at RIR.  Thus endeth the turbine at Indy.
Alas again




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Boyd" <ferrari308driver [at] gmail.com>
To: "DOUG" <dnt [at] dock.net>
Cc: "Paul K Rentiers" <rentiers [at] mac.com>; "The FerrariList" 
<ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Stunning New Porsche 918 Spyder - Another Hybrid


> I thought I read the 16 mile range is if you go fully electric, which
> typically wouldn't be the mode folks use -- but would be an additional
> option for short trips? Sounds pretty cool for a hybrid.
>
> The thing I'm most worried about in the future of electric cars is the 
> sound
> (or lack thereof). I keep envisioning 15-20 years from now the different
> series of auto races, from F1 to Nascar, with silent cars. Do Tesla owners
> put external speakers on their cars and hook up some sensor to the
> accelerator or somewhere so it can simulate "normal" sounds?
>
> -matt
> '85 308
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Paul K Rentiers <rentiers [at] me.com> wrote:
>
> > Cost, complexity, sixteen mile range. Other than that I'm totally
> > jiggy with it.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Mar 2, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Michael James
> > <cavallino_rapante [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Lemme get this straight, Uncle Ken - we have a new, faster and
> > > lighter car with better performance than current gas-only models.
> > > But we DON'T like it because it gets 78 miles per gallon?  What part
> > > of Zero-to-sixty in 3.2 seconds, faster than a Carrera GT did you
> > > not understand?
> > >
> > > Sign me up for more eco-weenie stuff in my sports cars if they
> > > actually INCREASE performance.
> > >
> > > M
> > >
> > >
> > > --- On Tue, 3/2/10, Paul K Rentiers <rentiers [at] mac.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Paul K Rentiers <rentiers [at] mac.com>
> > > Subject: [Ferrari] Stunning New Porsche 918 Spyder - Another Hybrid
> > > To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
> > > Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> > > Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 6:58 AM
> > >
> > > http://www.lifeitsownself.com/?p=17811
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