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I need help deciding 240 vs 850.

posted by  Edmund Kohlwey on  Fri Jun 13 12:09 CST 2003
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I would choose the 850 simply because stepping down from the zippy turbo to a sluggish 240 will probably be undesirable to you. The 850 is, as I understand, more prone to all sorts of failure (a mechanic informs me that the serpentine belt is prone to breakage, resulting in a broken engine), a lot of which is electronic (the microprocessor controlled tranny, for instance). Despite this, I would still go with the 850. The complexity of an 850's engine is probably comperable to that of a common honda which lots of people work on regularly.






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