From owner-xj-digest-at-digest.net Mon Feb 19 13:37:34 2007 From: xj-digest xj-digest Monday, February 19 2007 Volume 01 : Number 2516 Forum for Discussion of XJ cherokees and wagoneers Brian Colucci Digest Coordinator Contents: Re: xj: OT: 252.8981 mph... RE: xj: OT: 252.8981 mph... xj: engineer's week... XJ Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/jeep/xj/ Send submissions to xj-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to xj-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to xj-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:51:04 -0800 From: "Peter J. Ford" Subject: Re: xj: OT: 252.8981 mph... But the Aerotech isn't street legal. It also doesn't have a passenger seat or air-conditioning... not that you could use it at that speed. What is the record that the Aerotech holds? I know the top speed for an internal combustion engine is 409.xxx mph. Peter J. Ford >From: Ed Kummel >Reply-To: xj-at-digest.net >To: xj-at-digest.net >Subject: Re: xj: OT: 252.8981 mph... >Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:55:04 -0800 (PST) > >That's nice...but it's still 5 mph slower than the 20 year old Oldsmobile >that set the worlds record in 1987 by A.J.Foyt! > http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z699/Oldsmobile_Aerotech/default.aspx > And it did that with the square root number of cylinders as the bugati! > > Nice video though.. > Ed > web/gadget guru > >john wrote: > Bugatti Veyron - 253MPH Video. > >http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x157l2_bugatti-veyron-at-top-speed > >V-16, Quad Turbo, 10 Radiators >$1.5 million > > >----- >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold >http://freegift.com ** http://wagoneers.com ** >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >Don't You Love Mistyping URL's.... >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >....when they turn out to be pretty neat. > >In this case I was trying for Engadget.com, and instead wound up at >www.edgadget.com which appears to have lots of Newton software. > > - ProfessorF from the UK pcpro/macuser forum > >--------------------------------- >Need Mail bonding? >Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. _________________________________________________________________ With tax season right around the corner, make sure to follow these few simple tips. http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/PreparationTips/PreparationTips.aspx?icid=HMFebtagline ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:39:39 -0500 From: "Darren K. Page" Subject: RE: xj: OT: 252.8981 mph... I guess that the main difference is that the Bugatti is a production model... The olds looks like it was a concept car... - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Darren K. Page Montreal, Qc dkpage at videotron.ca - -----Original Message----- From: owner-xj-at-digest.net [mailto:owner-xj-at-digest.net] On Behalf Of Ed Kummel Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 3:55 PM To: xj-at-digest.net Subject: Re: xj: OT: 252.8981 mph... That's nice...but it's still 5 mph slower than the 20 year old Oldsmobile that set the worlds record in 1987 by A.J.Foyt! http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z699/Oldsmobile_Aerotech/default.aspx And it did that with the square root number of cylinders as the bugati! Nice video though.. Ed web/gadget guru john wrote: Bugatti Veyron - 253MPH Video. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x157l2_bugatti-veyron-at-top-speed V-16, Quad Turbo, 10 Radiators $1.5 million - ----- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold http://freegift.com ** http://wagoneers.com ** - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't You Love Mistyping URL's.... - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ....when they turn out to be pretty neat. In this case I was trying for Engadget.com, and instead wound up at www.edgadget.com which appears to have lots of Newton software. - ProfessorF from the UK pcpro/macuser forum - --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:36:40 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: xj: engineer's week... just ran across this news item... Engineers Week - Feb 18-24, 2007. http://www.engineeringsights.org/results.asp?view=s&ID=WA&name=Washington http://www.engineeringsights.org/ interestingly enough... Toledo, OH didn't show up... Dayton did... :) john ----- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold http://freegift.com ** http://wagoneers.com ** - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of xj-digest V1 #2516 *************************