[regal]

Because the car is heavy and has short gears.


Think back to when the S2k was first released at 2800 lbs, it was heavily criticized for being overweight. I never thought I would live to see the day that a 2750 lb car is considered light, that is GT weight in my book.


There are a million examples but the original GTI weighed 1800 lbs and out handled our twins even handicapped by FWD. The Lotus Elise in England weighs about that.


Its time Ralph Nader and his Corvair crash standards be re-evaluated, cars weigh too much today and its just wastes gas and kills performance. Might save a handful of idiot drivers lives a year. I never felt unsafe in my little rusted out GTI.


But I don't think we will ever see lightweight cars again, the twins will probably be the last attempt at good balance and medium weight. The future is heavy DIT (gas and desiel), and really heavy electric crap.