Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:12:43 GMT From: dizz <dizzNOnopsampro-ns.net> Subject: Re: Toyauto vs Slaab : bottom line
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:17:25 -0600, "Hagbard Celine" <hcelinenopsam.net> wrote: >Audi's have FWD cars that cost upwards of $40,000. Audi sells some crap cars. Anyone with that much to spend and ends up with a front-wheel-drive car is a fool, IMO. >Front wheel drive is actually pretty significant to passenger cars. Some >describe FWD in a passenger car as being just like Power Disc Brakes. Yes, there's MANY clueless idiots who actually think that front-drive is superior! I wonder if they ever stop and wonder why all the BEST cars are rear drive... >I had a 90 Audi 100 FWD car. Turbocharged inline 5. Payed very little for >it. Had GREAT traction in the snow. And it was fast. So fast that I dropped >a couple of street racing rice boys in not time flat. And it torque steered BADLY, as all powerful front-drive cars will, and had vastly inferior balance and simply not as much fun to drive as a properly-made rear-drive car. If you liked it, fine.