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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 20:41:26 -0400
From: Four Weis <mweinopsamcom>
Subject: Re: Would Saabs be better as RWD?


The FWD Saab can keep up with the best RWD cars on the PUBLIC roads in the US, if you wish to keep your driving license. The legal and practical speed limits are low enough to make the difference minimal. It is an entirely different story on the race track, but I do not drive on race tracks and I want to keep my license. Porsche_S2 wrote: > I do prefer RWD over FWD. I have a lot of Porsches and mercedes in the > past and now a Saab. My only complaints are too much understeer, bad > gauge cluster, it comes with cup-holders (blah, you wont see real cars > (MBZ/Porsche/BMW with them), and it is front wheel drive. Maybe I have > to get used to it, but it sure handles like crap. If only they could > make a decent handleing car, they would do so much better. And what's > the use of 194/fpt when it is FWD? When it is wet out I have no control > of the car. FWD does what it wants to do, and there is no correcting it > unless you punch-it hard. There is no "go-cart" feel to FWD cars > either. Whats the fun of that. You drive to drive and only drive. Why > can't cars be more like the Germans. > > Other than that, the car has been great (power, reliability etc...) > > Thanks all, > > MV > > In article <38F2DE81.918D3F07nopsam1.tuwien.ac.at>, > RCS <e9225126nopsam1.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > > As I said before - I think the best solution is the 4WD. And itīs > true that > > itīs a religion if one prefers the FWD or the RWD. > > The RWD is very nice to drive on dry roads and itīs cool to provoke > controlled > > oversteering in nice dry corners - but itīs the hell if you donīt > expect that > > the conditions are not so fine, in the rain or even in ice and snow. > For my > > point of view the RWD is only nice in the summer when you want to > improove > > your driving technique and get a lot of adrenaline. Every SAAB beats > every > > german RWD car in the winter! > > For everyday driving under everyday conditions the FWD is safer cause > itīs > > easier to relase the accelerator when the car starts to understeer > than to > > catch an oversteering, spinning car. Thatīs why all the german RWD > cars needs > > a ESP system, cause little too much power in a narrow wet corner and > youīve > > lost! > > > > Greetings, RCS > > > > Bram: > > > > > > > > > > Only out of a stoplight, and who really NEEDS max acceleration at > that > > > > speed. At normal street speeds, no normal car will slip at the > tires, an > > > > thus this is not a problem. > > > > > > > > Lars > > > > > > > > > > Well if you don't need the acceleration, than you might want a > little > > > oversteer instead of understeer. That's the difference between > staying on > > > the road and flying in the ditch! > > > > > > Bram > > > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy.

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