As some of you may have guessed from the Skyline thread, I HATE having control of the car taken away from me and handed onto computers.
Given half a chance - any car I buy will NOT have:
Traction Control
ABS
Power Steering *and power assisted*
Active Yaw Control
Why do I need a seat that adjusts electronically?
Flappy bloody paddle gearboxes *only driven 1 car with one fo these that works properly - and that wasn't road legal*
active...blah blah blah...
The only computer I want is in the MP3 player..if that
I want a physical connection between the steering wheel and the steering rack.
I want my braking to be uninterferred with by computers say I can't break that hard.
I'm proposing a Campaign for real cars.
Wheels, seat, arse type things.
Aerial Atom - two thumbs up.
Lotus Elise and Exige- two thumbs up.
Radical - two thumbs up.
Escort Mk 2 - two thumbs up.
Lancia Stratos - two thumbs up.
One day the manafacturers are going to relaise that people WANT cars like these and actually make more of them.
Having been in high performance cars when the electronics systems fail - it's not a pretty experience. Imaging having your ability to steer cut in half, braking ability cut dramatically.
Ok..I freely admit that if there's someone who doesn't know how to drive then the electronics tend to be required as they really don't know how to use thir car.
Yet another reason why Pass Plus should be compulsory - or even make the test include some skid pan time or something like that.
Sorry...rant over..
Simon/~Flibster
Given half a chance - any car I buy will NOT have:
Traction Control
ABS
Power Steering *and power assisted*
Active Yaw Control
Why do I need a seat that adjusts electronically?
Flappy bloody paddle gearboxes *only driven 1 car with one fo these that works properly - and that wasn't road legal*
active...blah blah blah...
The only computer I want is in the MP3 player..if that
I want a physical connection between the steering wheel and the steering rack.
I want my braking to be uninterferred with by computers say I can't break that hard.
I'm proposing a Campaign for real cars.
Wheels, seat, arse type things.
Aerial Atom - two thumbs up.
Lotus Elise and Exige- two thumbs up.
Radical - two thumbs up.
Escort Mk 2 - two thumbs up.
Lancia Stratos - two thumbs up.
One day the manafacturers are going to relaise that people WANT cars like these and actually make more of them.
Having been in high performance cars when the electronics systems fail - it's not a pretty experience. Imaging having your ability to steer cut in half, braking ability cut dramatically.
Ok..I freely admit that if there's someone who doesn't know how to drive then the electronics tend to be required as they really don't know how to use thir car.
Yet another reason why Pass Plus should be compulsory - or even make the test include some skid pan time or something like that.
Sorry...rant over..
Simon/~Flibster
it also acts as my ABS system
