Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!nsc!voder!gino From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: cars in Europe Message-ID: <544@voder.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 15:56:48 EST Article-I.D.: voder.544 Posted: Tue Dec 4 15:56:48 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 06:32:14 EST References: <133@ur-cvsva.UUCP> <4000002@uiucdcsp.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 14 <> > By the way, the Citroen referred to is popularly called the 'two horses' > (in French naturally). This name apprently comes from the fact that its > engine has two cylinders. Actually, the engine has two `horsepower'; this refers to the taxable horsepower, which is calculated by a formula and has nothing to do with 746 watts, ie nothing to do with the engine's measured power. There used to be such a concept in the US too. The 2cv (French abbreviation for two horsepower: deux cheveux - oops, chevaux) won't out-accelerate my tricycle (the one I had when I was 6). -- Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino) Mr Humility