Re: Road Skill

[Patrick Chung <pcch@ecr.mu.oz.au>]

I agree, a stock M3 will go much faster than a standard q in all but the
most pathetics conditions, with a good driver.  For the standard hack
though, I'm pretty sure he/she could push a q better in the wet than the
an M3.
 
>  as for 50-50 weight distribution and limited slip being the holy grail,
>  i don't agree one bit.  i have a miata with a torsen rear end and the
>  ideal 50-50 weight distribution.  you think i'd choose this over the
>  q on a wet or snowy day?  you'd have to be smoking some serious weed
>  to think that!   no doubt a miata's no M3, but 50-50 and LSD doesn't
>  automatically turn everything into an unbeatable combination either. >>
> 
> Not going to beat a q in snow, but you put the proper tires on the M3, eliot,
> and for wet weather you might have a slight traction advantage to q but
> again, the laws of physics apply everywhere, so back to the M3 (your miata
> applies only 1 here), better brakes, better suspension, better weight
> distribution....  CONTROL (and this IS my argument) goes to the M3 everywhere
> but the lowest of traction conditions.....  Been on this list quite a while
> eliot, so have you....  Not a lot of posts with q's blowing away many of the
> hipo cars (none re the M3) in much of anything but lowest traction