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Post #11 Tue, Dec 31, 7:06 AM

Prince Of Eternia
Senior Member - 170

WRX's are notorious understeeres on a dry track, they may 'grip' but they don't 'handle'. I assume you know the difference. You've obvoiously never driven a WRX fast have you?

Post #12 Thu, Jan 2, 5:53 PM

696969
New Member - 27

ya ferraris are nice and all but i mean come on, take on good look at the lotus and tell me you wouldn't drive it. some say they would rather have the ferrari but thats only because they think the name makes them look cooler to everyone else until they get smoked by some punk ass kid in a nitrous injected RX-7, like me for example. My RX-7 would kill any 355 on the road without a doubt.

Post #13 Tue, Jan 7, 8:41 PM

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Supercar Messiah - 6408

They handle very well. Yes I've driven one, it was at the end of the last stage on day 1 of a rally I was in, one of my competitors (well not really because we were in a different class) was driving one, and an emergency came up and he had to leave in another vehicle, his co-driver didn't have a license so he asked me to drive the car back to the hotel which was the working "headquarters" for the rally, and the co-driver let me thrash the hell out of it, I did a few hand brake turns, a few drifts, then on the way to the hotel the logging road turned into a paved twisty road and I tested it out on there, and if I wasn't careful and didn't transfer the weight properly it did suffer a bit of understeer, but not much, and it was easy to correct, the car is balanced for the driver to intentionally oversteer it. Overall, I drove the car for about 25 minutes over a distance of about 55km (the majority of the distance being logging roads and twisty mountain roads), so I got a decent feel for it, and I assure you it handles quite well even on dry pavement. Those that suffer understeer problems are driving it like they would drive a daily driver they are pushing hard, it should be driven like a performance car that you want to drift with, the driver should transfer the weight then oversteer enough to get the nose pointed in, then it will really shine on pavement.

What you say doesn't make sense as they're designed to handle without grip, and you contradict yourself in that understeer is a loss of grip.

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Post #14 Sun, Mar 2, 5:57 PM

SoRiNxX
Supercar Guru - 721

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I hate people that hate a car simply because they can not afford it.I say they should instead marvel at it's sheer beauty and engineering exellence.

Post #15 Sun, Dec 7, 9:38 AM

carguy8007
Supercar Messiah - 16351

I doubt it, not while retaining some civility. Of course, if you can get 900 bhp out of a Civic, I'm sure it's possible...

But anyway, I would take the Esprit, but only assuming I could get a new gearbox. The Esprit's gearbox really does suck.

"This car belongs to the Pakistani ambassador!"

Post #16 Sun, Dec 7, 9:38 AM

carguy8007
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"This car belongs to the Pakistani ambassador!"

Post #17 Mon, Jul 12, 7:54 PM

280zx
Member - 99

both cars are beautiful in my opinion. seeing both at one time was very unlikely. i dont know performance wise. id take the esprit.

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Post #18 Mon, Dec 20, 12:15 AM

vale
New Member - 1

Sorry, do realy want to put a Ferrari vs a Lotus???
Lotus are my favourite cars, but Ferrari is at least a palm ahead, especially on track!!
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Post #19 Wed, Nov 21, 3:26 PM

Paul91785
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