LAST EDITED ON Mar-31-19 AT 01:57 AM (EDT)
 
>Now, it only took 5 or so
>seconds for that to come up off the peg and slow down, so I couldn't
>have been going much more than 10ish miles over that upper bound, but
>unlike the Olds, that Dart has what I *thought* was an overly
>ambitious upper bound of 130.

Yow. Dodge Dart, Boy Racer edition.

Although, if you look closely, the Toronado's speedometer goes to 140...

... kilometers per hour. :)

That obliquely reminds me of my favorite feature of the '04 Pontiac Grand Prix I used to have. It had a button on the dash for switching from imperial to metric measurements, which would change the trip odometer and the temperature display. It also changed the speedometer, but the Grand Prix didn't have a digital speedo. Instead, when you pressed the ENG/MET button, the lit-up "MPH" label on the speedo dial would go out, another light would come on behind "km/h", and the needle would abruptly jump from, say, 62 to 100. It was a fun trick to play on unsuspecting passengers.

Well, technically that was my second-favorite feature of the Grand Prix. My favorite one was that it had really good seats, despite its sporty pretensions. In 2004, Pontiac, at least, had not yet succumbed to the prevailing wisdom that all automobile seats must be hard and have too much side support.

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