It's not that hard. Look at our sigs.
Never own more cars than you can keep charged batteries in...
Don't worry guys, despite turning 25 this week I'm actually from 1927.
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
Visca Catalunya!
some of our members were only just born in the 90's, there's a scary though
Andreas Preuninger, Manager of Porsche High Performance Cars: "Grandmas can use paddles. They aren't challenging."
But if the RR layout is that bad on gravel, why have RR vehicles dominated rallying for that long (Simca, NSU, the Hillman Imp... I could go on)? I guess that having more weight on the driven wheels improves traction (which is why FR cars nearly disappeared from the sport). Also, Porsche has solved the "uncontrollable oversteer of death" problem now.
FIXIE EVOLVED INTO SMALL MOTORBIKE! Now driving a Simson KR51 <3
Dream ride: red 1971 Opel Commodore GS/E
Lack of charisma can be fatal.
Visca Catalunya!
FIXIE EVOLVED INTO SMALL MOTORBIKE! Now driving a Simson KR51 <3
Dream ride: red 1971 Opel Commodore GS/E
Ferrer, Commodore is picking outstanding class leading cars of an earlier vintage than the others got things sorted out
Having rallied an Imp it is NOT an easy car at all and spent more time "in trouble" than "in control"
The BIG thing with those first set of outstanding rear engine rear wheel drive was power to weight. They were VERY light, very small cars competing against much larger cars. So there reasons for winning weren't jsut the engine position. Jsut as the Mini would prove about power/weight/size that time in FWD configuration.
The Stratos kind of proved the disadvantage of chasing more power in a rear engine RWD car and was spectacular but relatively slow on gravel.
The front engine rear drive progess with high revving , high power, small engines proved it's worth over the rear layout for everything other than pure tarmac ( and even some of those did with tarmac setups ). Then as noted the Quattro came along and upset the cart just as the likes of the 037 and 5 Turbo had pushed the limits on tarmac and in the case of the Lanci in the hands of the Finns showign "Promise" on gravel -- but check the records and see how many retireements and accidents they had off tarmac
Just some of the rasons I think
"A woman without curves is like a road without bends, you might get to your destination quicker but the ride is boring as hell'
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