Re: [DMCForum] Re: stupid driving lesson question

[Jim Strickland <ihaveanaccount@xxxxxxxx>]

I hope you mean "braking".  Though "breaking" might also be correct.



On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 15:09:32 -0400 Andrei Cular
<andreic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I don't know the tires, the little I have been able to drive my car I 
> am 
> really not impresses with the way it handles either.  But I haven't 
> wanted one since I was 4 cause of its performance.  And besides 
> steering 
> the breaks are way too weak to handle the power of the 3 rotor.
> 
> Maybe I am very biased but for any kind of performance driving I 
> like a 
> Lotus or Porsche, they seem to have the best balance.  Like a 
> Porsche 
> add once said " We lose half our competition on acceleration, and 
> the 
> other half in breaking."
> 
> 
> Andrei
> 
> Walter Coe wrote:
> 
> >Andrei, I bet that if we could try that 3 rotor DeLorean
> >with some better tires we would get very different results.
> >Those Firestones Indianapolis tires on it handle very
> >poorly.  Tom (Clearwater) has a set on his DeLorean.  He
> >complains about spinning out in conditions that were never
> >before a problem.
> >
> >I would have loved to have tried out my Michelin Pilots on
> >the 3 rotor for a test drive.  Who owns that car now anyway?
> >What's he going to do with it?
> >
> >Walt
> >
> >  
> >
> >>When I had the 3-rotor at a reasonable speed and tried
> >>to turn it just pushed through the corner, where my 90
> >>    
> >>
> >944s2 could take
> >  
> >
> >>the same turn at 1.5x the speed.
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> >>
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> > 
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> Andrei Cular
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