RE: Porsche spin-out (with no Alfa content)

To: James Montebello <[email protected]>, Tony Sims <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Porsche spin-out (with no Alfa content)
From: Scott Fisher <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:04:44 -0800 (PST)
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--- James Montebello <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is drifting well off topic, but...
> 
> IMHO, lifting when in trouble is a bad instinct to
> retain, no matter the car. 

Agreed.

> Most cars, stock, are set up to understeer
> under power (fwd cars can't really do anything 
> else).  

Demonstrably false.  Early-Eighties FWD Audis tuck the
nose in and tighten the line when you stand on the gas
in a high-speed corner.  I'll take you for a ride the
next time I drive the CGT to the Bay Area.  It's
enlightening, and always serves to remind me that
maybe, just maybe, professional engineers know more
about designing cars than the average car-guy yahoo,
no matter how many issues of "Sport Compact Car" are
sitting on the back of his toilet.

--Scott Fisher
  Tualatin, Oregon
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