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#799 of 800 Driven almost everything listed; this thread is headed toward FAIL by iomatic

Mar 02, 2010 (10:05 am)

… in various combinations of snow, dirt, racing. And in racing, you can translate a lot of learned information and physics to the more mundane driving world.
 
All the silly armchair analyses here miss a couple things:
 
a) it's not the car that wins these WRC examples, it's actually … drumroll … the driver/team.
b) it's the tires
c) and then it's the suspension, body-weight ratio, and finally, maybe of the least importance: AWD/4WD system.
 
You give me the above, say, caged, prepped Ford Fiesta with FWD, and you take a big, fat SUV with summer tires, dual-zone aircon, seat heaters, chrome bumper and blingy wheels on a dirt road, and I'm pretty sure I'd win. Heck, my preteen kids would handily beat you.
 
So we ended up with a Highlander because 90% of the time it's pavement, and the rest is dirt, mud and snow. We thought the Land Rover Discovery would be overkill.
 
Love,
io

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#800 of 800 Re: Driven almost everything listed; this thread is headed toward FAIL [iomatic] by ateixeira

Mar 02, 2010 (10:36 am)

Replying to: iomatic (Mar 02, 2010 10:05 am)