Crap handling car with skinny tyres = fun car?
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However, more specific to the thread title, the KA was (what I may term as) a good handling little car, and so can't really be included in this discussion. So...
Mr Gearchange said:
Great handling car with crap grip = fun car.
Crap handling car = crap car.
A Yaris I once drove, despite having many of the hallmarks of a potentially fun little skinny-tyred car, handled absolutely atrociously and was no fun at all, no matter how many times you bounced it off the rev-limiter.Crap handling car = crap car.
Depends what's crap about the handling. It could be an entertaining quirk, or a frustrating quirk. It also depends on other aspects of the driving experience. Is the steering is giving nice feedback up unto the point where the car sulks off into terminal understeer? Does it have a really sweet gearchange?
I had a lot of fun driving an ancient Renault 9 along simply because I felt so connected to everything compared to the modern cars available at the time. The gearchange wasn't fast or anything but it did actually feel like it was controlling a box full of gears. The steering had that spongy FWD feel to it, but the thin rim and skinny tyres gave it a delicate quality that was quite satisfying to fingertip along. The brakes were.... actually they were rubbish. Fortunately so was the engine.
But it was good fun in a back to basics way, despite the fact that the actual handling was pants.
I wouldn't want to drive one every day, but it's a refreshing reminder of what motoring is when you remove all the modern refinement and rubber and isolation.
I had a lot of fun driving an ancient Renault 9 along simply because I felt so connected to everything compared to the modern cars available at the time. The gearchange wasn't fast or anything but it did actually feel like it was controlling a box full of gears. The steering had that spongy FWD feel to it, but the thin rim and skinny tyres gave it a delicate quality that was quite satisfying to fingertip along. The brakes were.... actually they were rubbish. Fortunately so was the engine.
But it was good fun in a back to basics way, despite the fact that the actual handling was pants.
I wouldn't want to drive one every day, but it's a refreshing reminder of what motoring is when you remove all the modern refinement and rubber and isolation.
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