Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 13:18:05 +0200 From: Nel Frikandel <nelfrikandelnopsamail.com> Subject: Re: GM to increase SAAB lineup
On Fri, 18 Apr 2003 10:35:55 +0100, Martin Rich <M.G.Richnopsam.ac.uk> wrote: > >The ordinary DAFs that you could go out and buy at a dealer weren't >very powerful. Also the combination of a simple automatic and a tiny >car didn't usually appeal to enthusiastic drivers, so DAFs had a >(rather unjustified) reputation for being slow and unexciting. >However they also performed very respectably in rallies. Especially driving backwards!! ;-) The fact that the CVT operates wihtout any gear-wheels caused the tranmission to have a funny feature: The DAF cars could reach the same speed in reverse as going forward. So in the 80's, when a lot of older used DAF's were available at low prices, a broadcasting company started organizing the infamous reversing races, in which old DAF's, with the windows taken out and equipped with a roll-cage competed in massive races, going backwards on a ralley-cross track. It was sensational TV and great fun, however partly caused the DAF's to have disappeared out tf the street.
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