Shenan Wrote:
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> Pete, what do you mean that AWD is downright
> commonplace? I can only think of two current
> models in the size segment that would be rallyable
> that have AWD in the US: Impreza and Evo. That's a
> very small portion of all rally-size cars out
> there. Like maybe 5% (guesstimate) of all the
> compact models currently available.
Not everyone drives compact cars. (As if Subarus/Evos were compact!)
Not everyone drives "rallyable" cars.
That was not my point: my point was that as AWD becomes much more common *as a mode of transportation for John Q. Public*, they want to take it from the top tier of rally.
Every manufacturer (selling in the US anyway) is making or has made in the past five years an AWD car of some description, save the Koreans, Rolls-Royce, and the Italian exotica. And they're downright popular. Do they even *make* a two wheel drive version of the STS? Every one I have seen is an STS4. And AWD Vibes, Suzukis, Lexus ISs, G35s, BMWs of all manner of different flavors, Mercedes 4Matics and their stepchild Chrysler kin, Ford schlepmobiles... Even *Honda* has an AWD vehicle on the market. With a turbo, even.
I'm not even bothering to count SUV/minivan/crossover type vehicles, either.
Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio
1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
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