What is cool for the E30? - LHD or RHD ?

[dtmpower]

LHD OR RHD

[Rearwheel_nick]

er what? rhd if your in this country unless its an M3 or lhd if you are in a country that drives on the right.

cool doesnt really apply to purposefully having the steering wheel on the wrong side. M3 excluded cos thats only how they came.

[320Touring]

LHD is cooler as you get closer to the 'skirt' you're posing for

not to mention the fact that the brakes dont feel as dead

moreover it makes driving on the continent a breeze

[Simon]

I've got to say I feel more comfortable driving on the left hand side of the car than I do on the Rhside, not really sure why, but it just feels right!

[Sjoerd320i]

LHD is way better and cooler

more room for turbo manifold and of course not 1 but 2 turbo's
better pedal feeling when braking
more goodies like manifolds to put on without any trouble

[Nostrils]

I've got to say I feel more comfortable driving on the left hand side of the car than I do on the Rhside, not really sure why, but it just feels right!

Ditto! This week for some reason, despite not having driven the M3 since last Saturday, only the other car, a Safira (company car not my choice ) I have instinctively gone to change gear with the right hand....only its a door!!

Cool

[Simon]

I've got to say I feel more comfortable driving on the left hand side of the car than I do on the Rhside, not really sure why, but it just feels right!

Ditto! This week for some reason, despite not having driven the M3 since last Saturday, only the other car, a Safira (company car not my choice ) I have instinctively gone to change gear with the right hand....only its a door!!

Cool

Yep, not once have I got in the M3 and hit the door card, but I do it regular in the touring!

[orangecurry]

it's not cool

what if you are driving your gran down the shops?

anyone looking will think you are being driven by your gran.

Any idea that the french came up with is decidedly uncool - name a cool french invention..? (cool, not croissants or any other bread-related niceness)

french cars... cool?

french girls that don't shave - cool?

no

[A1BMW325iSport]

lhd is ok if your live abroad but in the uk 99% drive rhd so i`ll stick with rhd thanks

[Pete320is]

I feel a bit safer in LHD for some reason. Maybe being further away from oncoming traffic or something..! Seen a couple of head on crashes where the drivers side (RHD) was crushed and the passenger side was fine, since they tend to be corner to corner rather than directly head on.

My 2p's worth!

[Adammcf]

Ive still never driven a LHD car. I want an E30 M3 though so I guess I better drive one soon to see if I like it or not!

[Pete320is]

It doesn't take long to get used to. Changing gear with your right hand and a dogleg 'box however...

[Widge]

Any idea that the french came up with is decidedly uncool - name a cool french invention..?

french cars... cool?

One word for you my man.................................................

[GDBN]

Only voted LHD because I live in Denmark ... but there is something far better with having the gearstick in your right hand than the left .... don't ask me why but it just is ........

[Sjoerd320i]

Only voted LHD because I live in Denmark ... but there is something far better with having the gearstick in your right hand than the left .... don't ask me why but it just is ........

look at this pic and you'll know why

[GDBN]

So mate ... what do you do with the right hand ?????

[Sjoerd320i]

change gears going faster and slower
and I am right handed so I do praticly everything with it

[johnono]

u lot r funny man

lhd for me!! gotta luv it, the 1st to 2nd throw feels "right" in a lefty if u know what i mean


GDBN,. howws it goin mate, im in Odense

[H35-IAN]

lhd ! cus im left handed and much prefer it on the left very noval...

[orangecurry]

Any idea that the french came up with is decidedly uncool - name a cool french invention..?

french cars... cool?

One word for you my man.................................................

errrrrrrrrrrr that'll be an Italian then, he happened to set up business in France
He got to race in the French blue because the French can't hack it - uncool

sheesh

next attempt at something that is cool and French?

[Widge]

The man may be Italian but the company was French.
He set up shop in France as it was where he had been to engineering collage.

[orangecurry]

the company is the man - he designed and built all the classics; he's Italian - where he set up shop is irrelevant.
Any modern success is owed completely to his design stylee.

End of story.

And who owns Bugatti now? VW, that well known francophile.

C'mon someone must know of a French idea/thing that is cool?

[320Touring]

the company is the man - he designed and built all the classics; he's Italian - where he set up shop is irrelevant.
Any modern success is owed completely to his design stylee.

End of story.

And who owns Bugatti now? VW, that well known francophile.

C'mon someone must know of a French idea/thing that is cool?

Citroen DS-one of the alltime coolest looking cars

Citroen 2cv-good take on the 'car for the masses' theory and a great ride quality

Renault Alpine

Champagne

TGV train

Eiffel (sp) tower

[dazleeds]

renault 5 gt turbo raider
may not be supercool nowdays but back then it was a sweet piece of kit

gotta admit theyre aint much cool in france tho lol Daz

[Cotty]

RHD

If your in a LHD car then overtaking will be harder. I drove a RHD car in France and had to rely on my passenger to let me know when the road was clear.

Paying tolls (Dartford Tunnel) and using ticket machines must be a royal pain in the bum with LHD

[orangecurry]

Citroen DS-one of the alltime coolest looking cars

Citroen 2cv-good take on the 'car for the masses' theory and a great ride quality

Renault Alpine

Champagne

TGV train

Eiffel (sp) tower

I agree the DS was a huge leap forward in technology and kit on a family car, and the 2cv is top funky fun, but the first car for the masses is the Model-T Ford, and the second is the Beetle; Volkswagen again, and Hitler in particular.

The Alpine is different and good, but it's still a Renault - same goes for the 5 Turbo; serious fun but only a development of someone elses ideas.

Champagne - not really; wasn't it just an accident that a batch of wine from that region became fizzy when being shipped over to England? So I don't think you can claim something is French cool if it was by accident.

TGV train isn't a french idea - they stole it from the Japanese

Eiffel was french and yes that's a stunning structure... but you could argue that they built the framework and then forgot to put the walls in.

Nope - I have proved that ALL french ideas are poor, including LHD.

[Widge]

Champagne - not really; wasn't it just an accident that a batch of wine from that region became fizzy when being shipped over to England? So I don't think you can claim something is French cool if it was by accident.

Eiffel was french and yes that's a stunning structure... but you could argue that they built the framework and then forgot to put the walls in.

Champagne was invented by Dom Peringnon who was a french monk and discovered that if he fermented wine in the bottle he could make it sparkiling.

And the Eiffel tower was built for the grat Paris Expose (1890 I think) and was later used as an advertising space for Citroen.

And what have you got against Renault anyway?

Foie Gras, Truffels, shooting anything that moves; all great French ideas.

[320Touring]

Citroen DS-one of the alltime coolest looking cars

Citroen 2cv-good take on the 'car for the masses' theory and a great ride quality

Renault Alpine

Champagne

TGV train

Eiffel (sp) tower

I agree the DS was a huge leap forward in technology and kit on a family car, and the 2cv is top funky fun, but the first car for the masses is the Model-T Ford, and the second is the Beetle; Volkswagen again, and Hitler in particular.

The Alpine is different and good, but it's still a Renault - same goes for the 5 Turbo; serious fun but only a development of someone elses ideas.

Champagne - not really; wasn't it just an accident that a batch of wine from that region became fizzy when being shipped over to England? So I don't think you can claim something is French cool if it was by accident.

TGV train isn't a french idea - they stole it from the Japanese

Eiffel was french and yes that's a stunning structure... but you could argue that they built the framework and then forgot to put the walls in.

Nope - I have proved that ALL french ideas are poor, including LHD.

the DS is just COOL!and its french, sod all to do with technology-on looks alone its amazing

2cv has almost jag-like ride quality from a cheap car!also easy to work on, and full length sunroof

as for champagne-sometimes accidents are cool plus the wine must have been cool enough to have been shipped anyway!

does the bullet train have shared bogies?

Eiffel tower-why do buildings have to have walls to be cool?

LHD is not a french Idea

[Widge]

LHD is not a french Idea

Damn it, at least some one is thinking what I am

I could have sworn lefting wasn't a Franco idea.

[orangecurry]

LHD is french - when they had the revolution, and did for all the upper class, or was it Napoleon; whichever, they made everyone walk/ride the other way round, just 'cos they could - that's what successful revolutionaries do; pointless gestures.

The reason all normal people walk on the left is because as most people are right-handed, if anyone on the road had a go at you suddenly, it was easier to draw your sword and defend yourself.

[orangecurry]

shooting at everything that moves.... french?
the germans and the americans beat them to that

eating fungus you find on the floor because you've been drinking too much red wine at lunchtime isn't clever

Fois gras? Again mashing up animals internals has been around forever - someone elses idea that they fiddled with

I'm looking for an original idea that the french invented.

Depends how picky you want to get but Perignon did NOT invent sparkling wine - he fiddled about with someone elses idea and made his name from it
http://www.internetwines.com/rws14792.html

[Widge]

Why do the Germans, Spanish, Poles, Italians, Dutch, Belgians, Austrians, and everyone else in Europe drive on the left then, they havent all had revolutions, have they?

[orangecurry]

Napoleon

[dazleeds]

okok the guileteen spellins cak but ya know what i mean

is that french???

[320Touring]

LHD is french - when they had the revolution, and did for all the upper class, or was it Napoleon; whichever, they made everyone walk/ride the other way round, just 'cos they could - that's what successful revolutionaries do; pointless gestures.

The reason all normal people walk on the left is because as most people are right-handed, if anyone on the road had a go at you suddenly, it was easier to draw your sword and defend yourself.

ask yourself this-were cars present at the french revolution?

maybe the carts were'handed' in terms of drivers?