Re: Requiem for a quattro (long)

[Mike Zamikhovsky <MikeZ755@sprintmail.com>]

Armstead, Brian wrote:
> 
> Phil:  Sorry about your experience.  Let's all use it as a wake-up call
> that while we have one of the most competent road vehicles ever built,
> the laws of nature frequently veto man-made aspirations to its authority.
>  Let's be smart drivers out there, and use quattro to get us safely home,
> and not to prove that we can plow through snow drifts.
> 
> Hope this does not offend anyone.
> 
> Brian



Once at NY Auto Show I asked MB tech why they dropped 4Matic. 
He replied that with any all wheel drive car one must not rely on 
technology but use good judjment and understand its limitations.
He said that untrained drivers of all wheel drive cars will still go 
off and hit something. They will just hit it at much higher speed than 
drivers of two wheel drive cars. He felt that fiew MB byers really 
understood it or bothered to learn about it.
I allways felt that instead of investing in tuning some of us should 
invest in driving lessons. However it is not possible for all in our 
daily lives.
Mike Z