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Old 04-12-2014, 03:43 PM   #1
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Default HULK FRIDAY (early edition): are turbo 4s more fun to drive?

Friday is almost here and this time of year it's time to let our hair down earlier, Friday is tomorrow but...why wait!!

For those of you that driven a variety of cars do you find that smaller turbo 4 cars (particularly manual transmission) are more fun to drive? Comparing to our big turbo i6 or v8s

They seem to be more nimble to throw about, gearing is usually shorter as they usually lack a little low end torque, you revving through the gears more often, feel the road a little more.. The get to 100km/h there is a bit of driver input.

Of course many bigger cars are often ultimately more capable but this capability is almost unusable on the road.

I have a xr6t and ls1, I've owned boss v8 and i6 etc etc. Effortless power, hardly need to be worked hard for daily duties, big cruise liners almost how smooth they are. Big comfy space. To open these cars up your usually on the wrong side of the law very quickly, so tend to barely hit 3000-3500rpm day to day.

Then consider a small turbo charged car like a golf vw, wrx etc.. Belting through the gears, thrust of turbo on and off through the gears, more nimble to throw about, more driver input required. Are these cars more fun? You feel like you are driving these cars more than the bigger cars which tend to just coast along.

On a long trip the big car is awesome but day to day duties I feel the smaller car is more fun (especially turbo 4s)??

How do we make bigger cars more fun and involving to drive?

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