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Melting Slicks
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Sarcasm of course. Look up the chassis diagrams, this car has a super strong chassis with lots of high strength materials.
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Just guessing, but the big front casting plays two rolls. The main one is to deflect the front wheel from the passenger compartment in a offset frontal crash. The fact the driver is 16" farther forward and that much closer to the front axle line, it's that much more difficult to keep the front wheel from coming into the passenger compartment.
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Burning Brakes
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From: N CA
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2005
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From: N CA
Absolutely nothing, it's still like the C4 and has the structural integrity of a wet cardboard box. That's why sports cars are so bad nowadays, they just have so much electronics
Sarcasm of course. Look up the chassis diagrams, this car has a super strong chassis with lots of high strength materials.
Sarcasm of course. Look up the chassis diagrams, this car has a super strong chassis with lots of high strength materials.
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2005
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From: N CA
Just guessing, but the big front casting plays two rolls. The main one is to deflect the front wheel from the passenger compartment in a offset frontal crash. The fact the driver is 16" farther forward and that much closer to the front axle line, it's that much more difficult to keep the front wheel from coming into the passenger compartment.
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Just guessing, but the big front casting plays two rolls. The main one is to deflect the front wheel from the passenger compartment in a offset frontal crash. The fact the driver is 16" farther forward and that much closer to the front axle line, it's that much more difficult to keep the front wheel from coming into the passenger compartment.