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« Reply #360 on: January 18, 2007, 02:05:48 AM »
cost 300,000 pounds and they still havn't fixed the porsche oversteer problem.

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« Reply #361 on: January 18, 2007, 02:12:52 AM »
What? Fix one of the most charming traditional characteristics of a Porsche? ;)

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« Reply #362 on: January 18, 2007, 02:20:36 AM »
I thought understeer was its problem..
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« Reply #363 on: January 18, 2007, 02:24:18 AM »
Naw. Porsche's traditional rear mounted engine makes them heavy in the arse, so said arse have a tendency to want to come out and play in the corners. That is preferable to under steering though.

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« Reply #364 on: January 18, 2007, 02:43:45 AM »
Driving it like an FR (letting the fronts do the work, rather than playing with the rear's weight transfer to rotate into the bend) at corner entry tends to induce understeer, from what I've heard and semi-experienced.
Mid corner and past the apex are another story..
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« Reply #365 on: January 18, 2007, 03:54:30 AM »
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Actually, it's nothing like that.  The fact that you even equate automobiles to something as disposable as a cell phone shows what you actually think about automobiles. I suppose it's conditioning.

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« Reply #366 on: January 18, 2007, 08:12:46 AM »
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Naw. Porsche's traditional rear mounted engine makes them heavy in the arse, so said arse have a tendency to want to come out and play in the corners. That is preferable to under steering though.
Oversteer is preferable to understeer, but Porsche suffers from a snap oversteer. The rear comes around almost instantly. This has always been the case. The 4wd cars reduce it, but the tendancy is still there.

Take the video, for example. You don't have 10-15 tries to get a corner right on the road.

If this were the Corvette, he'd be saying "Incredible track car, horrible for the roads... Americans just can't get it right" and you'd be loving it even more.

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« Reply #367 on: January 18, 2007, 08:18:32 AM »
moot is not that far off...porche suffers from initial understeer changing to a rapid and uncontrollable oversteer.  It makes some say the car is not drivable at the limits and others to say it is a "professionals" car.

So what do you drive fstfwd?   It is a prius isn't it?

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« Reply #368 on: January 18, 2007, 10:39:33 AM »
I dunno about profesional's, but you surely can't lead foot it as much as average cars, near the limit.
I agree though, that although you either like it, or don't, it's (rear engined, rear wheel drive as well made as Porsche's) definitely a staple of automotion.

I speculate FastFwd drives a pretty nondescript car.
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« Reply #369 on: January 18, 2007, 11:08:49 AM »
Didn't he say some thing similar about the viper?

Tons of grip but till it lets go. The viper gives little to no warning when  it does.

Sounds a bit like the Porsche.


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« Reply #370 on: January 18, 2007, 11:13:04 AM »
A European "axe murderer" perhaps. ;)

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« Reply #371 on: January 18, 2007, 11:27:23 AM »
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A European "axe murderer" perhaps. ;)


So why is the Viper an ax murder, but the Porsche a drivers car?



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« Reply #372 on: January 18, 2007, 12:55:17 PM »
Who said the Porsche was a "driver's car" (whatever that means)?

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« Reply #373 on: January 18, 2007, 01:12:54 PM »
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Who said the Porsche was a "driver's car" (whatever that means)?

Way to nit pick. JC nothing but praise for the Porsche. Even though it takes a high level of skill to ride it on the edge.

Yet the viper is an "ax murder" for the same traits.

Lemme guess you like to argue the definition of "IS".


A "driver's car"  is one that that has the capabilities to go fast, either in a straight line or around corners. But this car requires a highly skilled driver to get that performance out of it.

Basically a car that has no computer assist driving aids.  IE traction control stability control and the like.


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« Reply #374 on: January 18, 2007, 01:13:30 PM »
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Who said the Porsche was a "driver's car" (whatever that means)?


must be something like a "german road car" with "teutonic engineering".