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