Thread: Anybody out there with experience autocrossing a fiero?
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Old 12-03-2007, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Howitzer View Post
What about a Maserati Biturbo?

"The Biturbo zips to 60 mph in 6.8 seconds and reaches 100 mph in only 21.4 seconds, covering the quarter mile in 15.3 seconds at 91 mph in the process. ... [It] will actually run with a Ferrari 308 Quattrovalvole up to about 90 mph. Above 100, the Maserati's bluff shape attenuates its acceleration considerably, finally arresting it at 125 mph." -- Car and Driver, April 1984
The only car with a worse propensity to catch fire than a fiero!

Oh, yeah, I forgot Lotuses.

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