To hell with the Viggen, bring back the 900!!!

and those with a ruthless dedication to the pope, and those who put their left shoe on first (the heathens), and those who never learned the true meaning of zero, and those with stars upon thars, and those who have a potassium deficiency, and those who like parrots, and those who don't like parrots, and those who don't use a mouse mat, and lefties, and righties, and ambidextrousies, and those about to rock, and those named Spartacus, and those who can only count in hexadecimal, you insensitive clod.

...math is hard

The More You Know!

Thanks for clarifying. Now I know if I'm involved in a high-speed chase, I should do it in my old Volvo. I'm pretty sure the cops on Segways couldn't keep up...

...I giggled

I can't stop reading that last sentence of yours... I mean, I'm no grammar expert, but I can't tell if it really needs any punctuation in it. Hell, I don't *want* it to have any punctuation in it!

Oh I see... Why not just get a Camaro?

Think long and hard about that Volvo. Do you want a car vulnerable to a very specific RF attack, or do you want one whose Lucas Electric system could fail at any second?

~proud 1800 owner

Don't ruin his tin foil fantasy.

Those two don't matter much, the one that does in an older carb and points car is the ignition coil which generates the high voltage burst needed for the spark plug. Somebody better at electronics could tell us if you can disrupt an ignition coil before doing bad things to the driver... I'm guessing "yes." I'm also guessing that whatever device they've built is not powerful enough to do either.

OK, not sure what the mouse is... But for real, what is that AC's problem with 70s Datsuns? They had some great cars!

That's why I said "today" :)

Also, that's what's fun about "underpowered" cars. You can drive them close to their limits without getting too fast. 90% of the adrenaline rush with 10% of the danger of a supercar!

While the 944 is a fine car, there is a significant difference between it an a Carrera GT. You can't compare a fairly mass market daily driver and a street-legal race car. Even though there have been great gains in the last decade, traction control systems are inherently speed robbers. It wouldn't have made a damn lick of difference in this situation because the professional driver at the wheel would have turned it off as soon as he turned on the car.

Stop being rude about it.

Or more likely, C: You mis-timed the maneuver and careen into another car, lightpost, pedestrians at the crosswalk, etc because the only reason to lose traction from a stop like that is to show off. This is not a practical example. Save it for a closed course.

It doesn't make his point invalid. Traction control for a mass market car has very different requirements than those for a high performance car designed for track days. It takes a much more sophisticated system to be acceptable for a supercar like the Carrera GT, and I'd certainly argue that the systems simply weren't there yet in '04.