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Re: Rear drive comes roaring back
Moved to Australia in '89, took 2 BMW bikes with me. After 2 years, I plunked down on the only vehicle that would do for my work (geologist), a Subaru 4wd wagon, left over 90 model (it was '91 by then). Cheap, very cheap! Only $37,500 AUD! Wonder why I waited? In that year, over here, this would have been around $10k US, and with the exchange rate of the time, about $13k there.
I just love the normal FWD! It was my first! and don't we always remember our first?? Going around corners under power was pure bliss. But you always kept going around the corner! Probably the torque reaction or something, but it was always fun doing this at a corner gas station, as since you couldn't stop turning, the near misses with the gas pumps was the purest exhilaration! And you haven't lived until you have thrown a non-powered tail end around expecting it to hook up when you let the power off just the right amount. I wonder if this was a key factor in why we didn't evolve to walk on our front paws instead of our rear ones.............. Freud for thought.
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