[Main C900 Bulletin Board | BBFAQ | Prev by Date | Next by Date | Post Followup ] Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos You certainly can! Like This Post: - Subscribe to Daily Digest for this Bulletin Board Posted by Saana88 [Email] (#207) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Saana88) on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:56:55 In Reply to: Good afternoon, gentlemen. Can I ask a question? (+), Siegfried, Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:27:30 Alert me when someone posts in this thread: Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup

The TC hit a tire-puncturing device developed to test the 900, as Peter said, with a front tire puncture at speed. The neutrailty in the suspension setup was designed so the driver maintains control until stopping. The car has neither a positive nor negative steering radius, as explained on pages 24 and 25 of the '85 Engineering Features (back when cars HAD THEM) brochure. For more on vehicles with a negative steering radius, read the NTSB study on 15-passenger vans and their propensities to roll over after a rear tire failure at speed. On these vehicles (negative steering radius) the behavior becomes unstable and unpredictable when something like a tire failure happens. Under this circumstance, the steering wheel actually turns in the opposite direction to the path the vehicle is taking. As the driver instinctively steers in the direction of the skid, they are actually helping the vehicle deviate from its course.
I like to think this is why a 900 claws its way through ice and slush and deep snow so well. With one front wheel slipping and one propelling the car, the steering wheel remains pretty much where it was.

By contrast, new car brochures nowadays are absolutely buns-useless piles of chemically-treated pseudopaper telling me how this snazzy new "vehicle" fits my active, outdoor lifestyle. This crappy schmaltz unfortunately works on the 95% of the public who buy that crap because they're not engineers, or at least they don't look at a piece of machinery (car) from an engineer's point of view.

The next time someone's selling an '85 notchback with 5000 miles on fleabay 20 miles from where I used to live, I'm going to buy it.

• Good afternoon, gentlemen. Can I ask a question? (+), Siegfried, Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:27:30
  • You certainly can!, Saana88 , Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:56:55 <-- Viewing This Message
    • Thanks for A+ reply. But I still don't follow (+), Siegfried, Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:08:57
      • Best I can do..., Saana88 , Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:47:53
    • Ahh, the engineering features booklet, No Snaab, Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:41:57
      • To answer the inevitable question, Saana88 , Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:54:16
  • Re: Good afternoon, gentlemen. Can I ask a question? (+), Peter_MA, Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:47:38
  • havn't seen it, nm(+), CBS , Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:40:33

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