RE: Street race

[Peter Henriksen <peterhe@microsoft.com>]

I've always wondered how 911s do on low-traction surfaces. With all that
weight over the driven wheels... Anybody know?
- peter

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>From: 	Robert Houk - SMCC Bos Desktop
>Hardware[SMTP:rdh@UrQ.East.Sun.COM]
>Sent: 	Thursday, June 27, 1996 3:23 PM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Re: Street race
>
>   Well, I think on snow or ice, the Q cars are Ferrari eaters! <G>.
>
>On snow or ice, urabuS's are Porshe/Ferrari/etc. eaters!
>
>I used to quite enjoy the first coupla snows of the season; I would go
>out Porsche-hunting in my little urabuS (which couldn't get out of its
>own way if it jumped off of a cliff! the only car I've ever been in
>which the 85mph speedo was wildly optimistic . . .); boy those folks
>really hated being passed like they were standing still (when they
>weren't sliding backwards down the hill they were trying to climb)!
>
>Not to mention being great parts-getter cars (you know, for those oc-
>casions when your "real" car needed another infu$ion . . .). Boringly
>reliable, they were.
>
>					-RDH
>