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Sept 17, 2008 14:15:25 GMT
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i really like both to be honest. i have had a go and navigated in some proper rwd cars in the past few years and they are both good.
i like my small fwd car because its light, nimble, chuckable. you can keep it neat and tidy and generally drive it fast. or if you know how you can give it some big 4 wheel drifts. i personally believe if driven right it is easier to be quick in a fwd car. depends what you want really.
Horses for courses and all that. buy cars, drive them and enjoy it while you can! you can't take them with you
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tenman
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Sept 17, 2008 14:41:31 GMT
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Doooooooo Eeeeeeet. Both are Grrrreat if sporting and able: Eg., incredible FWD:    ermmmm.. wasn't the Sunbeam RWD?... edit: DOH!!!, I'm a muppet, why did I think that was a Talbot Sunbeam?  ??... |
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Last Edit: Sept 17, 2008 14:54:46 GMT by tenman
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2003 BMW 320d Wagon (getting old and boring)
1996 Mini Kensington (SWMBO's)
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Sept 17, 2008 14:50:34 GMT
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Ahhh... time to throw a monkey wrench into things.... This is my snow car... No, not with the 20s on it...  See, I get a lot of snow as well, but I also have hills to contend with! |
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 Help! Save me!! | 88 E28 M5 | 97 740iL | 60 PA Velox | 62 PA Velox | 58 356A |
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Sept 17, 2008 15:21:32 GMT
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With classics it's just one aspect of the driving experience, I've owned FWD, 4WD and RWD cars and like them all for different reasons....
The Citroen DS and Saab 96 are great cars, driven wheels doesn't really come into it, I just like them....The fact they don't wheelspin and fishtale all over the joint in winter is a bonus. The 96 was totally unstoppable in snow...Of course in the days when these cars were designed, FWD was the sophistacted option and not an exercise in cost cutting...
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'98 e36 316i lux
'97 mx5 harvard
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Sept 17, 2008 15:35:20 GMT
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A 1996 Renault Scenic will not oversteer under any conditions or howeverway provoked. Period.
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B-8-D
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Sept 17, 2008 18:53:02 GMT
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Currently I drive a RWD car, but would happily have FWD again. heh youl learn ,,,,......  lmao. rwd is fun tho.... si |
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Snoozin
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Sept 17, 2008 21:04:38 GMT
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I currently have an all-RWD garage.
That said the 2 most fun cars I have owned have been FWD... Alfasud Ti and a DC2 Type R Integra.
The point of that post is actually beyond me, but um. Yeah. FWD is fine. I never understeered into trees/posts/fences/people but I did go backwards into the infield on more than one occasion!
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Sept 18, 2008 15:59:16 GMT
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Ahhh... time to throw a monkey wrench into things.... This is my snow car... No monkey wrench, everybody ought to have a junker clunker like this nobody cares about shredding for winter driving. BMW are perfect for the job, disposable large barges, ubiquitous in all the suburban hausfrau driveways. Ho-hum, ;D. |
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Sept 18, 2008 17:19:43 GMT
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BTCC cavalier manages to get from 0 - 60 in under 4 secs, thats FWD too. Must be able to get that power down some how?
J
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Sept 18, 2008 18:24:14 GMT
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FWD:  AWD:  RWD:  According to my father: Which is the fastest? The Impreza by far. Just grips and grips and grips and has enough power to spin the earth backwards. Which is the funnest? The 205 absolutely. Chuck it around anywhere and it won't bite, doesnt understeer hugely, doesn't oversteer hugely, is really well balanced Which is the most rewarding? The elise, get it right and its a dream, get it wrong and it can and will rip you to pieces! 3 very different cars, all of them 'better' in their own way. |
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2009 Westfield Megabusa
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tenman
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Sept 18, 2008 18:38:19 GMT
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hehe... spot the S13 in its natural environment... parked at the side of the road with the bonnet up...
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RWD Fanatic...
2003 BMW 320d Wagon (getting old and boring)
1996 Mini Kensington (SWMBO's)
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Sept 18, 2008 18:42:07 GMT
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hehe... spot the S13 in its natural environment... parked at the side of the road with the bonnet up... That would infact be the ex-goaferboy and minidan RX7 which was dripping 'box oil onto the exhaust causing some nasty smoking! |
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1997 TVR Chimaera
2009 Westfield Megabusa
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Hirst
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Sept 18, 2008 18:53:18 GMT
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Crikey I mostly drive RWD cars and some of these opinions are bonkers! The choice for the heterosexual man?! It's a drivetrain layout, not a dogeared copy of Razzle! Get a grip!
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B-8-D
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Sept 18, 2008 19:06:55 GMT
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I'm suprised this thead is still going.. rwd is best END OF!! ;D no seriously though... drive what u want! i prefer rwd but for which is best... well its in the eye of the beholder.. DRIVE WHAT YOU WANT and drive the wheels off it! enjoy driving like most of us RR do and let the rest just get from A to B! si |
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rodit
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Sept 18, 2008 20:12:13 GMT
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Well guy's did not expect such a response but thankyou.
If it has confirmed but one thing to hell with what wheels are driven, if it's retro and styled right it really don't matter as long as it can be enjoyed.
You have renewed my thought systems.
;D ;D ;D
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Low and slow
Why can't i tune it?
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tenman
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m00000000000
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Sept 18, 2008 21:00:39 GMT
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PMSL... almost as big as can of worms as "What defines Retro"...
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RWD Fanatic...
2003 BMW 320d Wagon (getting old and boring)
1996 Mini Kensington (SWMBO's)
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Sept 18, 2008 23:01:48 GMT
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hehe... spot the S13 in its natural environment... parked at the side of the road with the bonnet up... You sure it's not an rx7? |
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Sept 18, 2008 23:04:03 GMT
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BTCC cavalier manages to get from 0 - 60 in under 4 secs, thats FWD too. Must be able to get that power down some how? J Slicks for grip,low and very hard suspension for reduced weight transfer and a whole host of other anti-wheep slip tricks i'll wager. |
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MaxN
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Sept 19, 2008 0:17:43 GMT
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I daily-drive a MINI Cooper S - totally predictable handling, insane fun on freeway 'clovers' and utterly brilliant on a track or AutoX day. Manly ? Girly ? Who cares, it makes me smile....
I weekend drive an (fettled) MR2 Spyder - honestly it is a handful anywhere near 'the limit', sure it starts to break away gently, but man is it hard to catch 'just once', way too easy to over-correct and set up some form of pendulum effect with ever bigger and faster corrections. Never back off anywhere near the limit either - completely impossible to catch it if you do. Rewarding to go fast in, but bloody hard work and dangerous.....
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Sept 19, 2008 0:34:38 GMT
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I've got both & both have their merits - tbh I "miss" not having a RWD car more when I've only got one or the other.
My main gripe with FWD cars is how sensitive they are to tyre choice & pressures. I've had a FWD car change from reasonabley fun lift-off oversteer handling to horrible understeer just by changing tyre brand on one end of the car.
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