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Fastest van track battle: Transit vs Sprinter


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Unfair! These writers have to earn a living too. Then again, if they get published enough, they might get the next Czar nomination for whatever the next crisis is that our "leaders" can't handle with their existing "staff"

 

Is there a particular reason our leaders continue to use a term that is founded in Russia?? Why just call the appointed person the "Despot"????

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BTW - I don't think this is a valid comparison unless it's done on the 'ring with Sabine.....

 

Top Gear American just did a lap each around the 'ring in "real" sports cars. I don't think they were much ahead of her lap. So in other words, a real racer in a van can just about outrun a average guy in a real car.

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a real racer person who has driven thousands of laps on a racetrack with 117 turns in a van can just about outrun a average guy in a real car.

 

FTFY. Having raced a few hundred laps on the ring in Gran Turismo I can tell you it takes 30-50 laps to learn the track enough to really start pushing it. At 8-12 minutes per lap depending on the car, that takes a long time.

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Every time I see the prior generation Sprinters (and Dodge counterparts), I see a lot more rust around the back than I would expect.

Neighbor occasionally brings home his Sterling-grilled RAM Tow truck, I've wondered if you can get them (And the Dodge Sprinters) serviced at their donor dealers (i.e. Can you bring your rusted out Dodge Sprinter to an MB Dealer for service?)

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In somewhat related news:

 

Saw my first new Transit Connect on the road today, and it was surprisingly a window-van model that had been sold retail.

The hipsters are devouring the new transit connect Wagon, on Cleveland's near west side.

 

I'd buy one if I could get over the things it doesn't have:

  1. Manual transmission
  2. >32mpg HWY on the 7 passenger version.
  3. Ecoboost on the 7 passenger version
  4. Was priced comparably to the Mazda5 I.E. nicely loaded for less than 26k.
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