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...girlfriends visit the peckerwood who has the car, and three of them take it for a test drive while one of them stays behind to keep the guy company. Zoe has a mind to perform a stunt on the hood of the car: strapped to it at high speed. This caprice naturally attracts the attention of Mike, who is either in the neighborhood or has truly amazing car-dar. The chase consumes the last half-hour of the film...
...then, for me the grindhouse was not a place to see high-speed mayhem. Exploitation cinema was essentially sexploitation: great-looking women being naughty. The auteurs of this genre (Radley Metzger, Jose Benazeraf, Russ Meyer) could seduce an audience already panting for a striptease; the movies were just that, promising more than they delivered but still delivering an eroticism that in the pre-porn days was both forbidden and liberating...
...Maglev trains aren't particularly energy efficient either, using triple the amount of power of a bullet train while running at less than double the speed. In fact, the bullet train may be the best reason to leave the maglev on its test track. Terai counters that the maglev aims to compete with air travel, and that reducing travel time between Tokyo and Osaka to around one hour actually makes it faster than going by plane. But air travel makes up only a fraction of the short-haul market precisely because bullet trains are more convenient and almost as fast...
...Rational objections have rarely stopped massive Japanese infrastructure projects in the past - hence that huge debt - and Terai insists that the maglev makes technological and financial sense. "For us as a company and Japan as a country, this is a 21st century project," he says. "We need speed." A nation that already rides the bullet won't be satisfied with anything less...
...ride. The train begins moving on wheels; the levitation doesn't kick in until the cars reach 81 mph. After a bump and release, as you would feel aboard a plane leaving the runway, it's pure, even, rapid acceleration to 310 mph. The only clue to the sheer speed is the tunnel lights outside: Standing 40 feet apart, they seem to stretch and blend until they appear as a single white stripe; very Buck Rogers. Outside the train makes a searing boom sound as it rips the surrounding air, but inside the car is as quiet as an airplane...