Subject: Quattro, Lockers, et al (long)

[Erik Ringelberg]

All,

I have no idea what is wrong with some people's cars, but there is no 
possible way that *any* quattro is going to corner worse than a FWD car. 
That is beyond belief. The same mass car, same center of gravity, same 
spring rate, same tire will corner at the same max g. What I think we have 
is a difference in perception.

Since you *can* accelerate through the corner in a quattro, you can easily 
exceed the maximum traction available to the tires. I would NEVER approach a 
corner at the speeds I do in my quattro on ice and snow in a FWD. It does 
*feel* looser because I'm driving much faster!

Most people don't understand that on ice the max coof. friction is less than 
20 vs. 3-4x that in the dry. You get to feel how the car handles at 140 mph 
(minus lift) at 40 mph. Magically, most mericans think massive oversteer 
then is a solid feeling in bad conditions.

Rant off...

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