Subject | Re: Ideological differences between big 3 german, americans and jap trash |
From | -hh |
Date | 02/27/2014 11:35 (02/27/2014 02:35) |
Message-ID | <46f76460-4263-4010-8cd7-544c4e8f358c@googlegroups.com> |
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Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
Follows | I hate front wheel drive, send most torque to the rear, please |
Followups | I hate front wheel drive, send most torque to the rear, please (9m) David Fritzinger (5h & 12m) |
I hate front wheel drive, send most torque to the rear, pleasePerhaps individually so, but from a larger holistic view of society, such a shift carries connotations that our transportation infrastructure is regressing ... which is a very bad sign.
On 2/26/14, 21:05, -hh wrote:-hhI hate front wheel drive, send most torque to the rear, please
Understandable. I believe that what transpired was that markets have to adapt to changing consumer interests and they were confronted with the decision...With the popularity growth of SUVs then (and continuing to today), a product that was more utilitarian looked like a good opportunity...
To tell the truth a ute makes a whole lot of sense where I live than a bottom scrubber such as cayman and 911 or even 4 seater panamera.
... and I would have preferred some inane arrangements with the engine in the middle of a 4 seater. I wonder if you can even pull a stint like that without having rear row facing backwards.There's practical limits to the principle, and stepping out of the racing/competitive arena to general purpose driving, the difference between 9/10ths and 9.3/10ths isn't significant - - especially when also considering the driver skill set is much much more likely to be the limiting factor.
Sorry, it looks like Google once again figured out a way to make Google Groups even more USENET unfriendly, this time by abolishing the previously incorporated feature of auto word wrap.-hhI hate front wheel drive, send most torque to the rear, please
Another direction that they probably considered ....
hh for crissakes break the lines.
Nashton claims that it will be replaced with RS5 which might be in the same boat as that up and coming A4 on steroids from porsche."it"? Sorry, I lost context: Nashton claimed what would be replaced with an RS5?
Nashton, are you gonna carry kids in the trunk of that RS5?Nah, the RS5 is to haul the 7,000lb trailer that his Q7 isn't up to task for ;-)