its just a personal thing... i was actually recently fortunate enought to dtive an evo... and yes it is very very quick in a sraight and not mucht could touch it in the twisties either... personally i found it very easy to drive whereas the e30 is more of a challenge. the evo would just eventually start scrubbing wide and u cold just bring it inline by lifting off then planting it again to neutral slide it round... this was within only a few miles of me driving the car... i dunno bout imprexas but i doubt they are much differentorangecurry wrote:I agree with everything you said Karan...
...except which car to be in in the corners
no matter what you do to an E30, it's a very old design at the back
the same driver can go round corners faster in AWD, and if you are on the limit in whatever car, that's your 'real man or woman' point, (whatever that means)
yes it's 'easier' to go round corners in AWD, but there still comes a point where the physics of chassis/grip runs out, and the drivers skill comes into play
I think that was the point I made in the original thread... you can have fun at the limit in an E30 at speeds which WON'T kill you - in an AWD, that limit is so much higher that when it goes wrong it's going to hurt (as can be seen in my link at the top)
but the Impreza is still a drivers car.... it just happens to be an idiots car as well (actually after seeing that PINK E30 on Ebay, the E30 is proven to be an idiots car as well)
just because something is cheap and accessable, it doesn't mean it is no good
im rwd thru and thru......nothing else does it for me.. although having sat in an actual corolla grp a rally car (a proper factory one) on gravel id say i was gobsmackingly impressed.... as this is where 4wd really becomes fun and i could see rwd just being frustrating
all bout it being an enjoyable experience... these 4wd things are no doubt impressive but to me they are just another chav chariot..and i personally would not feel comfortable driving one around in fear that ppl would think im a right tosser/boy racer!!!
) in my fathers Evo VI a couple of times and it was actually always oversteer, even exiting corners I have got oversteer. I actually haven't had understeer in his car, but my father says he gets a little bit when racing on the dirt sometimes and on very tight corners on the bitumen I am sure it would. His car doesn't have a front LSD either, apparently an LSD on the front helps a fair bit with understeer. On bitumen race tracks It understeers a little bit less than my E30 and I don't think the E30 understeers much. On the dirt the Evo is usually power slides everywhere, you can turn into a corner, it starts to slide, you get back on the power to full throttle (or very close), power slide through the whole corner and then if you stay on the power it will pull itself straight at the end of the corner and you go rather quickly down the straight or you can back off again and turn into another corner. Like you said it is robably easier than my E30 (although things happen quicker) but it is still fun to be in a full power slide