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

[Mike (themightytoe]

Ok. You all have convinced me...  The vette is getting the loudest  
street legal exhaust I can find for it...  Gonna make some babies and  
Prius owners cry...

And anyone who has ever done a perfect heel-toe downshift at race  
speeds would never trade that experience for paddles...  Never.

BR,
Mike Fleischer

Sent from my mobile

On Mar 3, 2010, at 9:07 AM, "Stephen Sherman" <sherman [at] wildblue.net>  
wrote:

> Play a game on your pc, xbox,PS3.. with the sound off. I don't even  
> play
> Solitare with the sound off :-).
> It is not just cars.
> Stephen
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul K Rentiers" <rentiers [at] mac.com>
> To: "Stephen" <sherman [at] wildblue.net>
> Cc: "Dennis Liu" <BigHeadDennis [at] gmail.com>; "The FerrariList"
> <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 12:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Stunning New Porsche 918 Spyder - Another  
> Hybrid
>
>
> > Matt is on to something  re the sounds. Did you ever see a little kid
> > playing with Hot Wheels without vocalizing the appropriate engine  
> > noises?
> > "Vrroooom! Nyyaaarrrrow!"
> >
> > I once had the distinct pleasure of witnessing the Union Pacific's
> > well-preserved old steam train pulling out of Houston at full tilt,  
> > headed
> > north for Dallas. What a rush! All the sturm und drang and thunder.  
> > People
> > don't get priapic over Priuses, or diesel locomotives either. I  
> > haven't
> > bought a Porsche since they gave up on the oil coolers; not by  
> > design ,
> > just lack of desire. I realize this is a highly personal thing, but  
> > I am
> > just not very excited about the first Porsche equipped with a  
> > dashboard
> > that glows green when you switch on the AA battery pack.
> >
> > Of course, as Chef Liu used to say before he began writing about  
> > couscous
> > rather than cars, I could be perfectly wrong.
> >
> > the kenverine
> > http://www.upsteam.com/
> >
> >
> > On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:02 AM, Doug and Terri Anderson wrote:
> >
> > > 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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