Newsgroups: rec.autos
Subject: Re: PC's vs. Mac's... was: FWD vs. RWD, Which is best.
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 21:05:17 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <25993@oasys.dt.navy.mil> bense@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Ronald Bense) writes:
>I had serious trouble deciding whehter[sic] to flame or not :>

Looks like you made the wrong decision based on some pretty vacuous
assumptions.  Looks like you missed the point too.
 
>In rec.autos, derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>>Ok I'll bite - what difference!    What do you drive a 6x6!.  A tank!
>>There are only three types of all terrain vehicles.
 
>A moron who thinks the only real vehicles are off-road vehicles....

Bzzzzt wrong.  I was describing Off-road vehicles - not vehicles in 
general.  Choose the correct vehicle for your needs.  More importantly you
should understand what those needs are.
 
>>There are also two types of drivers for such vehicles...
>
>And only one pea-brained knobble-headed driver for off-road only vehicles,
>apparently. All that bouncing your tiny head off the roof must have
>crushed what was left of that single neuron into useless mush.

Roof,  what roof?

Obviously you assume that anyone who defends off road vehicles must zoom 
round any bumpy field they see bouncing around and bumping up and down.  

Wrong attitude.  Tread Lightly is the phrase,  control is the driving method.
It might be slow but it can still be fun,  it also reduces the amount of times
you get stuck or come off the road.  Having a 4x4 isn't a ticket to go 
anywhere anytime.  You need to learn to use the equipment.  

Which was my point.  Many people buy hefty looking 4x4's to drive round town 
- they never engage the front wheels and still expect to go through 3 metre 
snow drifts.

OK, on dry pavement an Audi Quattro is a pretty safe car to drive.  On wet 
pavement too, but you can still lull yourself into a sense of false security.  
You can lose it in _any_ car if you overstep the mark - the trick is to know
what the limits are.

>>Seriously,  there are too many people out there who think 4X4 on the side
>>means you don't need to know anything new to drive it through poor conditions.

>Seriously, there are other advantages to to AWD on dry or wet pavement 
                                        ^^^^
>or dirt and gravel roads. It's called handling.

Really, there's no need to stutter.

Which gets us back to FWD, RWD, AWD - an argument no one else seems to have 
a definitive answer for.  Obviously you have!  Tell us about it then.

>The irony is priceless.

The irony is you don't understand irony, or any other form of wit.  

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BTW. the car I drive is a RWD with live rear axle, 2 litre DOHC 16 Valve
engine, no roof and falls in the <7.5 sec 0-100Kph bracket.

My 4x4 of choice has a 2.5 litre diesel engine and falls in the 
>15 sec 0-100Kph bracket.  I don't bounce the passengers.

Not quite the demographic you had me picked for...



-- 
Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz --  Fujitsu/ICL New Zealand -- 
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consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.  
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.