Re: [OM] OT - OK, I posted the vette pics, as requested

[Gregg]

Mike,

At 03:15 PM 9/19/2000 -0700, you wrote:
> In a message dated 9/19/00 "Lex Jenkins" <lexjenkins@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> writes:
>
> <<I have to give Porsche credit for this: the 911 is the finest handling
> snowmobile I've ever driven.>>
>
> <snip>
>
> Lex, you obviously have not driven an Audi quattro yet. ;-) I have owned
> both and can emphatically say that a quattro blows a Porsche away in the
> snow, even a Carrera 4. The quattro list (an Audi enthusiast mail list I
> frequent at www.audifans.com) has many wonderful sagas every winter
> about quattros pulling out stuck snowplows, blowing off SUVs etc. They
> really are amazing and the more sporting ones handle really well in the
> dry too.
I wonder what they do to make it handle in the snow?  Every vehicle that I 
have ever owned loses the ability to turn when the traction is reduced at 
the steering wheels.  4X4s just want to go straight, and front wheel drive 
vehicles seem to only do ok because they also have the engine weight over them.
The times I have seen Quattros race on TV, they seem to have an amazing 
ability to corner on slippery surfaces.  What gives?
Gregg


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