Unicycles?! (OT Rant)

[Jon Archibald <JArchibald@whpacific.com>]

	Please tell me this is a joke! Likening the dynamics of a
front-drive car to a unicycle is truly insulting to the intelligence. For
the 97% percent of the population who know nothing about vehicle dynamics, a
FWD car is a h*ll of a lot safer than a RWD. Especially in the rain. I love
some of the cars BMW builds (see my post on the M5), but they continually
amaze me with their absurdly elevated image of themselves and their evident
opinion that the car buying world are mostly idiots.

> Not just 'mericans.  BMW currently has a television ad series running
> over here.  It starts with a picture of someone wobbling on a unicycle,
> and the soto voce voiceover says:
> 
>    "When the wheels that steer also drive, the result can be instability.
>     That's why, on every BMW, the front wheels steer and the back wheels
>     drive."
> 
> Nurg.  My version:
> 
>    "On every BMW, the front wheels steer and the back wheels leap
>     sideways when it's wet."
>