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Subscribe to this threadFor real this time? Nissan Cube coming to America
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Markus @ Jan 16th 2008 8:44AM
While I don't like this Nissan Cube much, I really start wondering what's up with that American obsession of sub 10sec 0-60 times for their cars. 1.2l and 1.4l gasoline engines with 55-90hp are the standard entry-level engines on all the A-segment cars over here in Germany, and I can assure you that each and all of them can be savely driven onto an Autobahn, providing a manual transmission and rudimentary driving skills. Sure, passing while going uphill on the highway is not going to be fun, but it's not meant to be, though it will work if it has to. Many NA drivers seem to think that it's actually somewhere between dangerous and impossible to take a car onto a highway onramp if it doesn't have at least a 2l/120hp engine. Why?
I've driven in downtown and on highways in and around Boston, NYC, and Toronto, among other locations, all of it in a rental Grand Cherokee with a 4l/195hp I6. And while the Jeep is certainly better suited for hauling luggage, coffee and donuts, a 1.4l Polo at least wouldn't have started swaying like a sailing boat when changing lanes and would therefore probably have been safer and more relaxed to drive - except for the lack of space for coffee and donuts, of course.