Miata Mailing List: February 2000, Message #130

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Short, like Munchen to Bremerhaven?  

Michael and Paula Whitehouse
Cielo, 10AE #511
Captain Midnight, 99 twilight blue LP
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Werner Cassel <cassel@mailer.uni-marburg.de>
To: Multiple recipients of list <miata@realbig.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: Miata top speed


> On 1 Feb 00, at 9:15, Kevin Campbell wrote:
> 
> > I guess I shouldn't ask which we are going to check..
> > the Top Speed or.....
> > 
> > I know this really doesn't help one way or the other
> > but Donna had her 92B stock Miata (Elliot) doing
> > 125 MPH Indicated while running on the Autobahn.
> > She said she didn't even realize she was going quite
> > that fast but was "going with the flow" when she
> > looked down and saw that speed on the gauge.
> > 
> > Perhaps she was stuck in the draft of one of the
> > bigger Mercedes ....?
> ....
> Could well be. Draft helps a lot. I have seen those speeds at part 
> throttle when drafting (only for short periods, of course).
> 
> Werner
> 
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