Originally Posted by Not.Normal
Originally Posted by dojj
great in a straight line (as long as you hold onto the steering wheel)
round corners it's terrible
they sent it round the track with the stig at the wheel and he almost crashed going round corners, understeers worse than a smart car
So you've driven one then ?
yes, my mate works at the vauxhall dealer just down the road and i tend to get a "test drive" with him in most of the newer motors (gong back as far as having a pootle in a lotus carlton as well
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Originally Posted by Not.Normal
As has been said on here already the TG test was a load of pants with Clarksons general Vauxhall dislike and in fact the car they used was an early development car with different suspension so again does not reflect the cars sold to the public.
If you want to find out more information and actually get comments from people who actually drive the cars check out VXR Online at :-
http://www.vxronline.co.uk/
i somehow dooubt that even jc could get the stig to power understeer into a cameraman, no matter how much he hates them cars
the problem has always been the same with fwd vauxhalls, they have too much torque and it totaly overpowers the chassis
the 1.8 sri cavalier was fine, but even the 2.0 ones went mad at the wheels, and when you had a whole huge 130 brake pushing through the front wheels and you had no idea where you were going because it ust went where it wanted to go when you pressed the loud pedal....
things haven't changed with the letest generation vectra's either, either there is to much power or the traction control would kick in way to harshly
my mate had one for a few weeks which seemed to be better, but they just can't get the power down
put bigger and bigger tyres on it by all means, but it doesn't mask the problem that you have too much power going through the front wheels