I learned how to drive on a 61 Corvair Monza 4 speed manual - my dad's car. The poor mans American Porsche. They did have a propensity to oversteer but you had to be at the limit to experience that, which I did on several occasions.
The issue with The Explorers were improperly inflated tires and driver error. -----Original Message----- >From: John Sessoms <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: OT fifty worst cars of all time > >From: Larry Colen > >> On Aug 30, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >>> Utter nonsense. It's one nincompoop's list. The 1961 Corvair, for >>> example, is there only because an idiot wrote a book. And the 1995 >>> Explorer is there by virtue of some bad tires. But since these cars >>> are so awful, I'll take the Series III XKE V12 off someone's hands >>> or that Biturbo Maserati. Hell, I'm even willing to shoulder the >>> burden of a Ferrari Mondial. >> >> My understanding is that there were indeed some issues with the early >> corvairs, though not nearly as bad as a particular egocentric >> attention whore would have liked you to believe. > >To the best of my knowledge, the only "issue" with the early Corvair was >they would over-steer like European cars instead of under-steer like >American cars. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
