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Mitsu
01-20-2004, 10:01 PM
Link to an explanation on the beauty and advantage of AWD.


http://www.rallycars.com/Cars/4wd_turbo_cars1.html
nurb2
02-28-2004, 09:22 PM
That is an interesting article, and it pretty much sums up how I feel about my Evo as compared to the RSX Type-S I had before ... the AWD handling makes it almost boring. I tore through some twisties today, and the car was almost TOO easy to drive ... even though I was going wayyyyy faster through the curves, it felt a lot less exciting ... none of those "oh shit" moments I had in the Type-S. I guess the cure for that is to push the Evo even harder, LOL.

-nurb2-
han74j
02-28-2004, 09:43 PM
one of my friends told me that some part of the article is not correct...... check more sources before u stick withteh article
perversity
02-29-2004, 11:26 AM
one of my friends told me that some part of the article is not correct...... check more sources before u stick withteh article

What is wrong/missing?
han74j
02-29-2004, 01:18 PM
my friend was telling me the over and understeer was wrong
Evowned SE
05-22-2007, 08:59 PM
good info O0
DTunedEvoX
05-23-2007, 09:06 AM
my friend was telling me the over and understeer was wrong

There is nothing wrong with its definitions ...
x[corwyn]
05-23-2007, 10:40 AM
The article at the end says that Turbocharged AWD cars are all but gone.....I think he may be a slight bit off on that pronouncement.
ebevo
05-23-2007, 12:46 PM
good info O0


great necro bump :crazy2:

never read this article...some good reading

since this posts was made in 04...good chance the article was written much earlier before the evo/sti crazy hit our shores
littlejap33
07-23-2007, 11:46 AM
good post
mbrickner
08-31-2007, 01:02 AM
Wow that was disappointing.. i feel like i actually lost knowledge after reading that..
silvery_eagle
08-31-2007, 11:52 AM
Wow that was disappointing.. i feel like i actually lost knowledge after reading that..

why's that?
Granny Shifter
08-31-2007, 12:45 PM
yes, why so?
mbrickner
08-31-2007, 07:46 PM
It just seemed like it didn't go into a lot of detail.. After reading the title I expected some physics to be involved.

Just saying front wheel drives understeer and rwd's oversteer doesn't really do anything for me. I already know it does and why. I thought it was going to go into technical detail about why, etc..

And it doesn't really talk about the beauty and advantage of awd, it basically says it's neutral unless you have too much power.. it didn't glorify awd like I expected.

Make any sense, or am I crazy?