On Jul 22, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Today's front wheel drive cars handle relatively well, but like > others have noted, rear drive cars handle better under most > circumstances. Early front-wheel drive cars were a mess. Almost all > of them came with a handling characteristic known as "trailing > throttle oversteer." When the car's natural tendency to understeer in > a corner would cause the driver to lift his foot off the throttle, > the car would suddenly go into oversteer. So one minute you were > ploughing off course, seconds later, the tail would be hanging out. > Not much fun.
I drove Citroën cars from the 60s through to the 90s. I only stopped because parts for my DS cars got too hard to get when Peugeot pulled out of the US market (they used to also stock Citroën parts). The key to driving one of those older front wheelers was to teach yourself not to do what you mention, but keep accelerating right through the turn. Once you got the hang of it, you could point the front end where you wanted it to go and forget about the rear, since it would catch on to what you wanted. If I had the money and a proper garage to work in, I'd buy a Citroën SM. Most fun to drive of any car I've driven. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
