Re: the i5 returns??

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <000001be80d5$3128cf20$f387fea9@Dell_Boy.minedu.govt.nz> "Dave Eaton" writes:

> ... but loses out to the bmw because of its more "passive"
> attitude at the limit, it is less "chuckable", and somewhat less
> comfortable.

> georg kacher interestingly talks of the a6qv8 torsen being "too defensive",
> with a bias towards understeer.  kacher says that, with the haldex, the a6
> quattro would win the contest hands down, due to the haldex's rearward bias
> (in the tt).  it is somewhat ironical from this quarter, given all the heat
> in the "torsen spider" argument, that we have a road tester finding the
> torsen too safe, and looking for more the tail-out spice of the haldex......

I wonder how much of this is due to testers not having long enough with
the car and not adjusting to the 'slower entry and more power through
the turns" approach Torsen drivers use.  I find these days that the
front never breaks away on its own. By the time it goes, there's
enough power on for the back to go with it and the throttle becomes
the main pointing tool.  If the front starts to slip and I haven't
got the space (or I'm not in the right gear) to push the back out as
well, I regard it as a driving error.

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