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Hi!

"John S."

A Volvo S80 T started life on a car designer's notepad (or computer, these days) as a slighty upscale, rather big (for its country) family or business sedan: the Volvo S80. Its design goals were space, presige, value for money, economy, whatever, but quite certainly not performance. Later, it was nonetheless modified into a quite fast sedan, the Volvo S80 T. Even successfully so.

The Porsche Boxster, OTOH, started life on another car designer's notepad (or computer) as a sports car. It was initially designed with going fast in mind as a primary objective. (Not the *only* objective, but a quite important one.)

So? So will the Bentley Continental Flying Spur, a non-sports car if I ever saw one.

Not *the* primary feature, but *a* primary feature certainly. And not top speed, but performance.

Be that as it may, I agree that it's certainly pointless to discuss that here. Which is why I'll shut up about this now.

Yours, Erik. -- "Each new human is born with a potential that will never be reached, even in the best conditions. We use only a small fraction of our brains. Our opposable thumbs allow us to hold beer bottles and snap our fingers to the beat. How much better can it get?" -- Les U. Knight




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