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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   J. Clarke wrote:   
   > In article <52e1dc57$0$52801$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, dtravel@sonic.net   
   > says...   
   > > On 1/23/2014 4:42 AM, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > > > In article <52e0c96f$0$52806$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, dtravel@sonic.net   
   > > > says...   
   > > >>   
   > > >> On 1/22/2014 4:19 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > > >>> In article , Thomas Koenig   
   > > >>>  wrote:   
   > > >>>   
   > > >>>> Robert Bannister  schrieb:   
   > > >>>>   
   > > >>>>> Much of the rail system goes down the   
   > > >>>>> middle of two of our freeways, and when you're stuck in the traffic   
   it   
   > > >>>>> is quite annoying to see a train go whizzing past.   
   > > >>>>   
   > > >>>> Trains are a good alternative for some routes in Germany.  Germany,   
   > > >>>> being a fairly densly popoulated country, has a reasonably dense   
   > > >>>> rail network.   
   > > >>>>   
   > > >>>> The ICE 3 trains between Cologne and Frankfurt airport are quite   
   > > >>>> fast, up to 300 km/h (185 mph).  They run parallel to the Autobahn,   
   > > >>>> and you cannot hope to pass them in a car, even if there is   
   > > >>>> no traffic jam :-)   
   > > >>>   
   > > >>> Two words: Bugatti Veyron.  ;-)   
   > > >>>   
   > > >>> Ugly as sin, but fast ... of course you would need to stop to refuel it   
   > > >>> every 50 metres, which means the train still gets there first.  :-)   
   > > >>>   
   > > >> Just don't car pool with Jeremy Clarkson.   
   > > >   
   > > > Who raced the train from London to Milan and came close to beating it,   
   > > > with a Ford Mustang.  If he had been driving a Veyron he might have won.   
   > > >   
   > > IIRC part of why he lost was because of how often he had to refuel.   
   > > Someone has already pointed out this would be even worse in the Bugatti. :P   
   >   
   > Why would it be worse in the Bugatti? The Bugatti has nearly twice the   
   > fuel capacity of the Mustang.   
      
   Maybe, but at full speed the Bugatti uses the fuel up 90* times faster   
   than a Mustang.  :-)   
      
   (Note: That is obviously an exaggeration, but the Veyron does use up   
   fuel extremely fast when going full speed.)   
      
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