MSN - top 10 most dangerous cars

[trickywoo]

http://cars.uk.msn.com/News/Top_ten_article.aspx?c...

205 is the headline pic on the msn home page article of top 10 most dangerous cars. I feel so proud.

Clio V6 also makes the list.

[mattiselvis]

I'm not convinced that the GT2 should be in there. I'd have thought the mid-eighties turbo and 3.6 Turbo 2 would be much more dangerous - massive lag and the engine in the back is not a great combination! They should also amend the TVR's vital statistics to "aledged" 1100 kg and 380 HP .

[dhutch]

Nothing wrong with a bit of lift off overstear anyway.
- Several times it been the only reason i actaully made it round the roundabout at all...



Daniel

[AlpineAndy]

The only thing that article prooves is that Dan Trent is a plonker!

[GHW]

Hehe.. you've no idea how many times I've seen that list mentioned in a forum followed by owners of one of the cars on the list slating Dan for being an idiot. I can say for a fact that Dan's probably got more track experience than a lot of the people slating him - especially at the Nürburgring (although he does own maybe a wee bit more than his fair share of armoco there... ).

Truth is, 205s have got a well deserved reputation for snappy lift-off oversteer, which can be most dangerous when you're not expecting it!

And the Skyline gets on the list because Dan managed to royally stack a press car back when they were launched

[GnuBee]

I've had 3 of the cars on the list (still got 2 of them) but I seem to be alive...

I think the common factor in the cars on the list is that they all punish sloppy driving in a heavy handed way. Most cars these days have nice, benign understeer - you do something a bit silly and you clout a kerb or fall in a ditch. Something like the v6 though is a different thing altogether; you do something silly, it waits for a bit, starts to spin, laughs at you with it's non-existent lock and then identifies the nearest potatoe field to enter backwards at high speed.