Yeah sorry about the paragraph thing, I have ADD....sometimes I get carried away.
The older corvettes haandled fine, the newer Corvettes do not. My dad's friend from Boy Scouts owns a dealership that sells 15 different brands of automobiles and he says the handling of the newer Corvettes are awful.
As for the Elise, it is over here now. I ususally see a few floating around where I live and you can look on ebay and you will find a couple for sale every couple weeks or so. I have even seen the Motorsport Elise for sale on ebay by a dealership in Florida and by another dealership in Colorado. They are not released in large quantities, but through many import dealerships near my house they sell them on special order. There even is an Elise Racing Club that races at the various local tracks.
And perhaps I do have small hands, but what I have noticed is that the general consensus is that the US Xbox controller is too big, uncomfortable and heavy. The controller type S has been found to be more user friendly. About 75 % of the people i know that have purchased the 'box have gone with the Type s as their main controller.
Since the US has been founded, the US has prided itself on being bigger and better than everybody else. Just look at our automotive industry: the Corvette, it has gobs of horsepower but no decent handling, and for about the same price one could get a Lotus Elise that handles beautifully and maybe does not have the "image" but sure does smoke the corvette in the slaloms gas mileage and in overall acceleration. For the most part the Corvette is only good for speed races, not complex races with hairpin turns. You could also look at the Us during the cold war, everything the USSR did the US had to do on a grander scale. The soviets have a massive cargo plane that can fit 12 tanks in it, we will have one that fits 13 etc. and then there is the venerable Xbox. The epitome of American hardware. It is large, it has gobs of horsepower (mhz) and it is home grown in the US ( microshaft) but is it really that good? It has horrible handling ( controller ) and gets the same performance as the smaller lighter Gamecube with less horsepower. So really the US prides itself on being the biggest with the most. What the US does not realize is that less is more. Apple has that down. Well except in the fact that they have a massive 23 inch flat screen HD display ( I have one, it is total bliss, but I do not need it) The first time I went to New York I saw the Sony MZ-R90 MiniDisc recorder. At the time I was listening to my crappy (MASSIVE) CD walkman that I purchased a week earlier. Seeing the sheer size of the MiniDisc reocrder that offered more functions and a better battery life than my crappy CD player I had to give in. since then I haven't used a CD ( except for video games) at school people are like "ew what is that?" I'm like "yeah it's my MD recorder," they are like " why would you want that? It is so small, there is nothing there at all." Not realizing that my MiniDisc recorder is superior to their Emerson CD player with 10 second anti-skip. America is crap. End of rant.
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Yeah sorry about the paragraph thing, I have ADD....sometimes I get carried away. The older corvettes haandled fine, the newer Corvettes do not. My dad's friend from Boy Scouts owns a dealership that sells 15 different brands of automobiles and he says the handling of the newer Corvettes are awful. As for the Elise, it is over here now. I ususally see a few floating around where I live and you can look on ebay and you will find a couple for sale every couple weeks or so. I have even seen the Motorsport Elise for sale on ebay by a dealership in Florida and by another dealership in Colorado. They are not released in large quantities, but through many import dealerships near my house they sell them on special order. There even is an Elise Racing Club that races at the various local tracks. And perhaps I do have small hands, but what I have noticed is that the general consensus is that the US Xbox controller is too big, uncomfortable and heavy. The controller type S has been found to be more user friendly. About 75 % of the people i know that have purchased the 'box have gone with the Type s as their main controller.
Since the US has been founded, the US has prided itself on being bigger and better than everybody else. Just look at our automotive industry: the Corvette, it has gobs of horsepower but no decent handling, and for about the same price one could get a Lotus Elise that handles beautifully and maybe does not have the "image" but sure does smoke the corvette in the slaloms gas mileage and in overall acceleration. For the most part the Corvette is only good for speed races, not complex races with hairpin turns. You could also look at the Us during the cold war, everything the USSR did the US had to do on a grander scale. The soviets have a massive cargo plane that can fit 12 tanks in it, we will have one that fits 13 etc. and then there is the venerable Xbox. The epitome of American hardware. It is large, it has gobs of horsepower (mhz) and it is home grown in the US ( microshaft) but is it really that good? It has horrible handling ( controller ) and gets the same performance as the smaller lighter Gamecube with less horsepower. So really the US prides itself on being the biggest with the most. What the US does not realize is that less is more. Apple has that down. Well except in the fact that they have a massive 23 inch flat screen HD display ( I have one, it is total bliss, but I do not need it) The first time I went to New York I saw the Sony MZ-R90 MiniDisc recorder. At the time I was listening to my crappy (MASSIVE) CD walkman that I purchased a week earlier. Seeing the sheer size of the MiniDisc reocrder that offered more functions and a better battery life than my crappy CD player I had to give in. since then I haven't used a CD ( except for video games) at school people are like "ew what is that?" I'm like "yeah it's my MD recorder," they are like " why would you want that? It is so small, there is nothing there at all." Not realizing that my MiniDisc recorder is superior to their Emerson CD player with 10 second anti-skip. America is crap. End of rant.