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I said no such thing. He made such a claim, I did not.

 

Then it should be easy for you to back that up with some cites.

Nothing peculiar about having better weight distribution and all the
benefits that come with it.

So you admit the floor isn't flat.

And now you admit the floor isn't flat and go further to say it shouldn't
be flat. The difference with regards to usable space is trivial.

You're entirely hung up on just a few cubic inches of space that isn't
used anyway.

Obviously you have a problem reading. I stated the difference was
negilible, insignficant, small. A few cubic inches of hump doesn't change
the interior space in any significant way.

Again, your strawman or you just can't read.

So, what do you use this additional 'hump' space in your front wheel drive
car for? Why is it so important? I certainly didn't have any use for the
space gained when I had the torqueless wonder car.

 

For the feet and legs of middle passengers?

 

Didn't say you did. Try putting it back into context of what statement it
was a reply to. Now think real hard. Get it?

 

Is that the same mythical middle passenger that people claim they need SUV's
for?

 

On some cars the trans hump affects the driver and passengers. There
have been some designs in which the accelerator pedal was
uncomfortably far to the left... generally small cars, but I think the
XJ6 was that way. In any case, when I started getting FWD company
cars, I realized that in the previous RWD cars, I'd been resting my
right foot against the trans tunnel. And without that tunnel, I had
to retrain myself not to use the crutch of it to guide my right foot
to the gas pedal.

 

Of course nobody could design a front wheel drive car poorly in any
aspect..... And your driving habbits aren't everyones. I manage to keep my
size 14s from rubbing on the carpet without even thinking of it and never
noticed any difference going from a FWD car to RWD car or vise versa in
that regard.

 

No wind noise on mine

Nice and quiet.

 

Yeah I get it. You were grasping for a reply and missed. Nice try.

 

Don't know about that.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0701/gallery.large_cars/5.html

 

That's the same way the government and the media treat our Social
Secuity system - take money from it to pay their bils and then report
that it's broke.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

Well, they're going to have to make some concessions. At minimum, to
provide the trans and rear suspension for the 300/Charger/Magnum on
the cheap. New management possibly won't care much about the
Sprinter.

Nice article. I skimmed the info on the other cars. They claim the
Cadillac torque steers because it has too much power. Wonder what
they'd say if someone pointed out the LH cars didn't but the 4 cyl
Chevy Citation did. They need to blame that on GM, not on engine
power.

 

Don't forget, they make these too:
http://www.caranddriver.com/previews/11572/2007-jeep-wrangler-and-wrangler-unlimited.html

 

Which is part of the problem. Outside the US SUV's are increasingly seen as
anti-green, anti pedestrian and un-cool. London (probably about half the
NEW car market in the UK) has recently introduced a special £25 (~$50)
charge for SUV's to drive in - three times that for ordinary cars.

 

Yes, SOME, but very few, snow tires today use a hydrophilic compound that is
markedly better on ice. Save that, the compound doesn't mean nearly as much as
the tread pattern.

I've driven the old snow tires and the new snow tires, and there's basically no
difference between the old snow tires and what are now called "all terrain"
tires, with the new snow tires being markedly worse than the old snow tires.

Dave Head

 

Er, yes they were. Bias / radial ply don't mean squat when you're attempting
to power out of a snowdrift.

You go right ahead. You will be stuck in the snow way before I will.

DPH

 

Go grow a clue.

 

Well I suppose you could carry an extra 4 tires around and change them
every time it starts snowing and when the snow ends.

Get yourself a model T or a horse drawn wagon while you're at it.

 

Brent P, you made good normal sense to me. I also learned HOW to
drive in emergency situations by practicing before I was involved in
one. Ever wonder why police cruisers tend to be RWD? They have a
few others, but they seldom use them for pursuit or high speed because
the lives of their officers depend on it.

Honda S2000, Mazda MX5 Miata, top line Lexus, top line Infinity, etc.;
which end does the powering in these cars? Even the purveyors of FWD
haulers of the masses know how to make a better car. Subaru solves
the dilemma by powering both ends.

Not trying to offend you folks, Bruce

 

(Brent P) said in
rec.autos.driving:

I wouldn't mind RIDING in one, but I would not enjoy DRIVING one.