>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...

Actually I meant the REAL chase shows eg "The World's Worst Drivers" etc,
not movies etc.

Andrew Grebneff
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