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Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 12:58:56 +1000
From: "Paul Panetta" <norsoftnopsam.com.au>
Subject: Re: fwd vs. rwd


Interesting point. I caught a glimpse of a british car show on telly (here in oz) that compared a BMW 328I and Alfa 156 (fwd) and an Audi A4 Quattro (4wd) to show the behaviour of the different drive systems. The biggest problem with the Alfa was that if you drove it fast around a bend it would understeer with the nose going wide onto the other side of the road (and thus running over the fluffy toy they placed there) while the BMW would keeps it's nose on line and and with some steering correction could be driven through the bend without going over to the other side of the road. Most people would look at a demo like this and opt for a rear-wheel drive car without looking at the advantages of front-wheel drive. You own both so you can talk from experience and it is very good to hear your opinion. I have owned rwd and fwd cars and in normal driving I don't worry too much about it. I have noticed with fwd if you put your foot down from start the steering wants to go left or right and same when you hit bumps mid-corner. In rwd they seem to slip and slide at the rear on a faster take off especially if the road is wet and can have trouble reversing up a hill on wet grass. I guess if you go too fast for the conditions you'll have a problem no matter what you've got <g>. Regards ... Paul P. a9203233 <a9203233nopsam.univie.ac.at> wrote in message news:8fe4up$1fca$1nopsamunivie.ac.at... > I own a Saab 9-3 and a ´BMW 3-series (E30 the last of the good ones) they > can't compare as cars, the beemer 325i is lots of fun. But I live in Austria > which has road conditons similar to Sweden in winter and hanging your ass > out on a tight bend on a remote road is lots of fun but the fun and ones > face pales when the same happens in town with the school bus coming right at > you. The saab is far superior to most other cars in bad driving conditons > snow, ice and come to it heavy rain and bad tarmac. You can drive it faster > and safer over long distances in bad conditions than most other cars. By > comparing cars always remember with what in mind they were built. No rwd > Saabs wouldn't be better (Mercedes handling don't make me laugh, exept you > want to spend thousands on handling packages and electronic gadgets). > Barbara > >

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