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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HardDrive
Unless your goal is to launch a car as fast as possible in a straight line, live axle is inferior technology. Period. The 'perfect surface' that would let a live axle not get disturbed doesn't exist. I got rid of my 997, and replaced it with a Mustang. Love the Mustang, but I don't have illusions that it handles as well as a well setup 944.
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Exactly...but in real street and road driving, you adapt. Hell, I find myself lucky to use a small percentage of what my stock '09 Bullitt Mustang is capable of with the traffic conditions of today. When used for point A to point B...home to my favorite pool hall & back, it serves me well...even with it's mere 315 horsepower. Mountain passes in Oregon? It takes it's place in a long line behind a motor home just as well as a Ferrari. Maybe even better because of it's good creature comforts.
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