Jeez, the Golf is sure getting some free publicity here..
So, correct me if I am wrong...
A FWD car with 280ps is as fast a 4WD car with 300ps. Why?
Could it be the 85kg weight difference?
People keep saying that the 4WD would make all the difference in the wet. Why?
Surely the lighter car would have the advantage under braking and mid corner - even in the wet.
I have watched a fair few youtube videos of Audi vs BMW in the wet. Why does the Quattro appear to make so little difference in the wet?
The only advantage the 4WD would have would be traction out of slow bends for a short period? How much use is that in the real world?
I remember watching Top Gear comparing 2 500bhp cars. Clarkson said one car was faster because it was 100kg lighter.
Back on topic (not quite sure what the last few posts were about..) have you seen this video chaps? That is quite a victory for the Leon Cupra, it would certainly be my choice based on that. Add a set of Michelin Pilot Cup tyres and upgrade the brakes and you'd have quite an accomplished stealthy everyday road car and occasional track toy.
Unfortunatey, the part of the UK we live in has well above average rain fall... and as you well know we get an average of 190 days rain in the UK every year (it just feels like more).
but did you note the two posts below? The Nurburgring doesn't have any bearing on real world (i.e: road) driving! Hit one single, solitary pothole mid-bend whilst ragging it & the M3 becomes a hedge seeking missile, M3 owners know this, so they won't push it too much on roads.Might be of interest to note that the fastest M3 lap of the Nurburgring is 7.48. Whilst the fastest RS4 lap is 8.09
Not really. The track is a million miles from real fast road driving. The 4wd wins every time in the real world. My friend has an m3 and we were racing an rs4 on some Northumberland B roads. He just couldn't keep up with the Audi as rwd may excel on the track but in the real world if his back end went we'd be in a hedge. Yes I know the seat is fwd but the point don't judge a car just on what it does around a track it might be on 0.5% of it's life!
One big difference in road vs track driving is you can push much harder on a track. If you lose the back end on a track you have more space to correct and often grass or a gravel trap to spin into, on the road that's likely to be oncoming traffic or a ditch. Another thing is that on the road you spend more time at low speeds where 4wd traction makes a difference.