RE: Requiem for a quattro (long)

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.com.pl>]

I can understand why 4matic drivers were hitting something often at
speeds higher than 20mph or something like that - the old 4matic system
switches off automatically as soon as the car reaches certain speed or
the slushbox switches into 2nd. If you are not aware of that fact and
you expect the car to behave like AWD vehicle, while it is in fact RWD
except in 1st gear, you're gonna be surprised.

Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.com.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars broke at the same time :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Zamikhovsky [SMTP:MikeZ755@sprintmail.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 10, 1997 4:36 AM
> To:	Armstead, Brian
> Cc:	Phil & Judy Rose; quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	Re: Requiem for a quattro (long)
> 
> 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.
> [...]
> Mike Z