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Old 07-20-05 | 04:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Expatriate
I suspect that in Switzerland there are more high output, small displacement motors, and less cars with V8s.
Yep. Conspicuous by their absence are the large American Trucker types..
In fact, there was recently a big hoo-ha about the Monster Truck show coming to Zurich because of the callous abuse of fossil fuels required to operate these machines.

Still, there's no shortage of Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, Maserati, Bentley, etc on the roads here.
But throughout Europe, most cars are on the more compact-side of design.

Just a hunch, but if you pulled up to a rest stop in Texas driving one of these:



you'd better be wearing your flame-proof undies...
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