At 07:58 PM 4/12/2001, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>When I see those car-chase programs on TV, mostly US-made, I have trouble
>believing the way US-designed cars wallow and crash with little or no
>provocation. partly due to awful (cheap) tires, mainly due to a combination
>of total ignorance of the driver and no dynamic ability on the car's part.

Um...the people who make the movies *like* to have lots of skidding and
such.  When Steve McQueen drove his own Mustang in _Bullitt_ they had to
detune the suspension because it made too little fuss going around corners...

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