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Rear Wheel Drive
« on: 22 August 2006, 09:59:58 »
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Re: Rear Wheel Drive
« Reply #1 on: 22 August 2006, 10:08:49 »
RWD is definately the way forward. Since owning my Omega's I cant see myself wanting to go back to FWD, unless it really is a bloody good car!! Switch the traction off, drop a couple of gears and listen to the V6 sing around those bends  :D
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Re: Rear Wheel Drive
« Reply #2 on: 22 August 2006, 10:52:51 »
RWD and 4WD give a far superior and refined ride.
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Re: Rear Wheel Drive
« Reply #3 on: 22 August 2006, 13:38:17 »
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RWD is definately the way forward...

...and sideways...   ;)



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Re: Rear Wheel Drive
« Reply #4 on: 22 August 2006, 18:56:19 »
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....and backwards... ;D
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« Reply #5 on: 22 August 2006, 18:58:35 »
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....and backwards... ;D

and for going round corners  ;D
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« Reply #6 on: 22 August 2006, 19:03:16 »
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....and backwards... ;D

and for going round corners  ;D

...and up hills and down dales.... :)
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Re: Rear Wheel Drive
« Reply #7 on: 22 August 2006, 19:25:35 »
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RWD is definately the way forward. Since owning my Omega's I cant see myself wanting to go back to FWD, unless it really is a bloody good car!! Switch the traction off, drop a couple of gears and listen to the V6 sing around those bends  :D
Simple fwd to rwd conversion "drive everywhere in reverse ;D
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« Reply #8 on: 22 August 2006, 19:46:19 »
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RWD is definately the way forward. Since owning my Omega's I cant see myself wanting to go back to FWD, unless it really is a bloody good car!! Switch the traction off, drop a couple of gears and listen to the V6 sing around those bends  :D
Simple fwd to rwd conversion "drive everywhere in reverse ;D

No that's just being silly ;D
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« Reply #9 on: 22 August 2006, 20:25:29 »
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RWD is definately the way forward. Since owning my Omega's I cant see myself wanting to go back to FWD, unless it really is a bloody good car!! Switch the traction off, drop a couple of gears and listen to the V6 sing around those bends  :D
Simple fwd to rwd conversion "drive everywhere in reverse ;D

No that's just being silly ;D

That would give some entertaining handling!!

Rwd is better on tyres too, get more even ware
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« Reply #10 on: 22 August 2006, 23:58:25 »
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RWD is definately the way forward...

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....and backwards... ;D

Yep, done that, many years ago, in an old RWD Alfa Romeo in the wet, a small sideways power slide that very quickly became a 180 degrees turn and a beautiful backwards slide into a bus stop... luckily it was 1am so the bus stop was empty, but the Alfa needed a new boot. The bus company, on the other hand, needed a new bus stop...  ;D


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« Reply #11 on: 23 August 2006, 06:43:59 »
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RWD is definately the way forward...

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....and backwards... ;D

Yep, done that, many years ago, in an old RWD Alfa Romeo in the wet, a small sideways power slide that very quickly became a 180 degrees turn and a beautiful backwards slide into a bus stop... luckily it was 1am so the bus stop was empty, but the Alfa needed a new boot. The bus company, on the other hand, needed a new bus stop...  ;D



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Re: Rear Wheel Drive
« Reply #12 on: 23 August 2006, 10:25:13 »
I was some 25 years younger then...  :(


But yes, you are probably right...  ;D




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Re: Rear Wheel Drive
« Reply #13 on: 23 August 2006, 10:31:39 »
I'm so old, I haven't even attempted a handbrake assisted u-turn in my MV6. Yet.
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Re: Rear Wheel Drive
« Reply #14 on: 23 August 2006, 10:38:06 »
Well I have only ever written-off one car (so far hehe), an Alfasud ti (and a very nice car it was too!)

I crashed the other Alfa - a RWD Alfetta - twice (the bus stop was one of them - a head-on collision with a Ford Fiesta with four pensioners who luckily escaped un-harmed was the second) - but on both occasions it was repaired and I finally sold it in working order.

But that all happened 25 years ago!  ;D

And yes, the Alfas were great fun to drive... a nightmare to maintain though...  :(







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