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Vehicle size can also be a key element in determining engagement with a particular car. I was all set to get a CTR, until I test drove a Civic Si. Its massive dimensions for what is supposedly a compact car dealt a death blow to my interest in that CTR. It just felt huge on the road, which made it far less engaging, despite its many strengths.
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04-29-2021, 10:20 AM | #170 |
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There may also be a NA vs turbo feel difference as well. People love the cayman and GT3 because the NA drive feel. Many hated the 718 T4 because of sound and feel despite it having excellent performance.
Owning both an 04 WRX and 16 BRZ I like both feels for sure, but on a really twisty road the BRZ feels better. As a DD both are fine for me, but I rarely get to see high rpms in the WRX because in DD I rarely have a chance to go 90-100 mph. So one of the benefits of a low powered car is hitting those higher rpms and getting that sound feedback of a good exhaust without immediately going to jail or killing my self. |
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You nailed it. That is why when it comes to mechanical feeling, I prefer my RSX-S over my Supra. I still prefer to DD my RSX-S over my Wrx. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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04-29-2021, 05:18 PM | #172 | |
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Like I said, I have *plenty* of experience in a wide variety of cars as a track instructor, and yes, I am pretty good at correlating what I feel from the passenger seat to what I feel from the drivers seat. Big heavy cars, are not for me. Dunno what's such a big deal about that, people have different tastes after all. Last edited by ZDan; 04-30-2021 at 07:14 PM. |
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The Taycan I drove yesterday was pretty cool.
I don't give a shit about how ultimately fast a car is, I always say that I bought my 205 hp bastard impreza shitbox after driving a Nismo GT-R and being dismayed at how useless all that power was in a daily driver setting. The Taycan was the only modern "high power" car I've driven that didn't make me long for my little beater because the taycan made everything feel easy, even driving 35 in suburbia with one finger on the wheel, which is what driving is 97% of the time is for me, and making driving feel easy and fun is what the 86 platform is best at. Just last week, 997 Carrera, sure, it felt tactile and engaging like the little pseudoyota, but it was annoying to drive slow. A lot of these high power cars are annoying to drive slow and can hardly be used to even a significant fraction of their potential in everyday driving and sacrifice too much usability for the sake of that unusable speed. |
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Yes the Taycan has performance, but it sacrifices n o t h i n g for it, at 30 between stop signs, it feels like a perfectly normal car that would gently do your bidding 365 days a year in sun, rain or snow wether you were running errands (in fact this was a winter driven car that did just that), trashing it on a twisty road or cruising to the ice cream bar on a sunday afternoon. You sit in it and it's surprisingly ergonomic and intuitive, you don't second guess any of your inputs, the car just executes your wishes. That's what makes it an exceptional car, not the performance. |
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That's what I did.
In stock form, it is a flawed car at the limit. With the BRZ, I've always been able to control that car at the limit. Not the case with the Alfa... luckily suspension tweaks do address some of the core issues (similar to the AP1 S2k). However if you drive at 6-7/10th's, it is one of the most engaging / rewarding / sensational cars that exist for the driver for under $200k. Unlike other modern & capable sports cars, I don't have to be going 80+ mph to relish in the 4C's liveliness and character.
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