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Old Jan 23, 2011 | 1:55 pm
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Originally Posted by Bishope2
We had a Sebring convertible from National in May. We drove to the 9,000 foot elevation to the visitors station. All i can say, WHAT A DOG THIS CAR WAS! I did not know it at the time but it was a four cylinder. I know how to drive a car and this one couldn't pull the hill in any gear. We tried up shifting, down shifting, using our feet like the Flintstones, etc Just would not go. ...
Had the very same problem with the very same car - as the air thins and the road steepens, this car just cannot seem to hack it. In our case, we found it revving way up 2/3rds of the way to redline just to keeping going at 25mph
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