[s-cars] future of awd

[Peter Schulz]

At 11:05 AM 4/25/2007 -0400, you wrote:


>The more I see, the more I want to keep buying cars for my own
>driveway with a Torsen.  Stellar performance 99.99% of the time, and
>at 100k or 200k or 300k when all the electronics break down, you still
>have AWD.  Give me X-Drive in a M5 or M3, and enough $$ to lease a new
>one every 2-3 years, and I'll defect :)  (either that or get me the
>heck out of the midwest...)
>
>Just my 2cents, which has a NPV of zero.
>
>Keith


At our second winter driving school this past year at Tim Oneill's 
Team Oneil Rally School., a student with an R32 "lost" his AWD due to 
a controller or sensor issue, and had to run the school in FWD mode only.

That's also something to keep in mind....

Everything may  be great in the showroom and at the track, but if you 
_have_ to depend on it far from a service center or you don't have 
the knowledge to fix it yourself, you may _prefer_ to stick with a 
more mechanical solution.

My two Pfennigs to this thread ;-)

Good to hear from you Keith .


-Peter
perhaps should change my sig to "Mr Avant"


-Peter Schulz
Chelmsford Ma, USA
http://www.naaclub.org/

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