Hyundai to build new pickup
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From: Houston, TX
Originally Posted by Bighersh
Yeah, my friends had a Hyundai Excel in 1988 when they went off to college. They've had 20 years to work out the kinks, but you're right, once you get something in your mind, it's hard to purge it...
I remember going to visit her at school and heading down to the gas station to fuel up her car -- on more than one occassion I pulled her dipstick out only to find nary a trace of oil on it! 
When we would drive it back to her folk's house in Albuquerque there was this big long grade around T or C. You would have to floor the thing a few miles ahead of time to build up enough speed going into the hill so that momentum would kind of carry you up and over the top of the thing. By the time you reached the peak, the car was rolling about 40 mph and shaking like a SOB!
Yep -- I had my "fill" of Hyundai's after only one or two round trips between Las Cruces and Albuquerque!
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From: North of Dallas, South of Frisco
Originally Posted by ddellwo
When we would drive it back to her folk's house in Albuquerque there was this big long grade around T or C. You would have to floor the thing a few miles ahead of time to build up enough speed going into the hill so that momentum would kind of carry you up and over the top of the thing. By the time you reached the peak, the car was rolling about 40 mph and shaking like a SOB!
Yep -- I had my "fill" of Hyundai's after only one or two round trips between Las Cruces and Albuquerque!
Yep -- I had my "fill" of Hyundai's after only one or two round trips between Las Cruces and Albuquerque!
If you were cruising at 80 - 85 on autobahn 10 , er- I mean Interstate 10, then it wouldn't be as noticeable. But, if you were goign 60 - 65, those hills would drop you to 45, if you didn't down shift to 3rd (Not a good idea) or 4th (Not a much better idea), and gas it...