Thread: Idiosyncracies
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Old Oct 16, 2009 | 10:39 PM
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LOL!!! Thanks Mr. Morgan! Yes, I've driven Camaros and I've owned Camaros. As a reference point I've also been fortunate enough to drive a handful of Porsches, a couple of Ferraris, a Cobra, a Viper or three and a handful of Corvettes - mostly the current C6 variants. And a few of those have even been on road courses! And by "road course" I don't mean a Playstation.

I can assure you that "handling" is not judged by a single throw of the steering wheel. Transition, stability, feel, rotation, balance through a variety of corners says so much more than a mere skidpad or flick of the wrist. Rare is the glass smooth, constant radius corner.

No, I'll put the "handling" of a Crossfire up against a 4th gen any day.

And much as you don't want to believe it, the Crossfire is indeed nearly as quick through the slalom as a Gallardo - certainly much closer to the Gallardo than the 4th gen is to the Crossfire. But I suspect what you'll really hate is that the Crossfire is actually quicker than a Murcielago in the same discipline. Then again, the Murcie is not known for being the greatest handling of the supercars - it's much too heavy.

EDIT TO ADD: I'm actually surprised that you're more put off by the Crossfire being "close" to the Gallardo rather than by it being faster than the NSX! That car is an icon of balanced handling so for the little ******* child of Mercedes and Chrysler to outrun it is truly astonishing!
 

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