More likely it was my 60 some years of driving experience, vis-a-v his 6 or so years I supose. I guess he never heard of the Ford GT 500 that blew the doors off every sports car in Europe, in the sixties
There is no question a RWD vehicle will out handle a FWD vehicle and that is the point. The original poster seem to think otherwise. ;)
mike hunt
>> Methinks you friend does not know how to drive. One of my neighborhood
>> kids challenged my stock 2005 Mustang GT convertible to a timed run with
>> his riced up 2006 Civic up over a local six mile mountain road, loaded
>> with hairpin turns where all the locals 'test' their cars . If we had
>> been running for titles I would have yet another car for one of my grand
>> children, if he had the title instead of the bank. LOL
>>
>> mike
>>
>>> Detroit's decades-long obsession with HP -- and NOTHING else -- has
>> made it a worldwide laughingstock when it comes to sports cars. >>
>> so true. i think that every time i massively out-corner a mustang in my
> 89 civic hatch on my skinny little 185/60-14's. a friend of mine has a
> seriously rodded mustang, and we went out one day into some hills where
> there are some nice twisty narrow roads. first, we both went in his. no
> question, /way/ more power. seriously way more power. then we went in
> mine. thing is, power doesn't mean squat when you have to brake and
> corner hard with two wheels in the ditch. after i drove, he wasn't
> speaking much. then he drove. when we were done, he just got out and
> threw me my keys and walked away! it took him days to stop sulking. i > love civics!
> Wasn't that an unfair competition? RWD vs FWD, real competition
> experience vs. (probably) none? ;-)
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> Ray O
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