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07-25-2007, 12:12 AM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
The speed limiter is precisely why I'll probably have my 'puter reprogrammed. If a bandito is after you, the last thing I want is my 'puter putting on the brakes.
I dodge cows, pigs, deer, mountain lions, bears, you name it. 97 ain't very fast if someone's chasing you, having the speed limiter on the vehicle is like carrying a gun with no bullets.
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07-25-2007, 01:45 PM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
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Not EVEN fast enough!!!!
Not sure about the Alpha for right now, I'm probably going to wait until the fervor dies down and the incentives begin, but I will have one. I'll wait six months or so and save thousands.
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Wish you would have shown the RPM's at that speed as well. How many Revs is the I-5 turning at 97 MPH?
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07-25-2007, 04:21 PM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
[quote=Huck BB62]The speed limiter is precisely why I'll probably have my 'puter reprogrammed. If a bandito is after you, the last thing I want is my 'puter putting on the brakes.
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if a bandito is chasin me im headin for the hills
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07-25-2007, 05:34 PM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
these are the only banditos we got around here. they ride choppers
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07-25-2007, 06:10 PM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
Booze Fighters are here in Hollister
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07-25-2007, 09:14 PM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
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OH YEA, Well wouldnt it be nice to have the power to PASS one of those critters if you needed to?
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well, i never have met a critter that can run 70 mph!!!!
aside from being chased by hot chicks (which happens all the time here in cabo and normally they are in teeny bikinis), i don't remember the last time someone tried to "chase" me.
in my experience, it is pretty rare that happens unprovoked.
to be prepared for that unlikely event (since there are crazies out there), i keep a full-size maglight jammed between the drivers seat and the console along with a small can of pepper spray in the driver's door stow box, just because - you never know.
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07-25-2007, 09:16 PM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
by the way - i have never needed to use either of those items, except the flash light for actual lighting purposes.
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07-26-2007, 12:13 AM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
wtf is the topic now?
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07-26-2007, 12:46 AM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
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Wish you would have shown the RPM's at that speed as well. How many Revs is the I-5 turning at 97 MPH?
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I don't recall, but it's not very darned many RPMs if I recall (somewhere in the 3s. Next time the road's empty and safe, I'll check it out. Believe me, the computer shuts it down pretty hard when it hits 97.
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07-26-2007, 06:16 PM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
H3 gearing in top 2 gears is so tall you could hit 97mph in 3rd gear.
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07-26-2007, 07:52 PM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
I couldn't keep up with traffic here in Texas doing "only" 97.....
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07-26-2007, 10:59 PM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
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wtf is the topic now?
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i thought the topic was "being chased and avoiding critters"
or maybe it was "h3 alpha - edmunds test drive"?!?!?!?!?
who cares what the topic is
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07-27-2007, 08:07 AM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
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Wish you would have shown the RPM's at that speed as well. How many Revs is the I-5 turning at 97 MPH?
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Not sure about 97 but at 106 it's turning about 5100. I haven't been able to get it over 106. I think it is aerodynamically impossible.
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07-27-2007, 02:34 PM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
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Not sure about 97 but at 106 it's turning about 5100. I haven't been able to get it over 106. I think it is aerodynamically impossible.
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LOL
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07-27-2007, 02:36 PM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
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wtf is the topic now?
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how to defend your hummer ????
i like this tgl installed it
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07-27-2007, 09:07 PM
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Re: H3 Alpha - Edmunds Test Drive
Nice top mount!
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