Originally Posted By: dailydriver
^^^SORRY, but NOT with equally skilled drivers, and equal rubber/brake pad compounds on anything more open than an autocross course with 5' radius turns in it.
Maybe THIS is what you meant by your "twisties" (a term I HATE, BTW, since it is soooo 'ricer' sounding, and their first reflexive reply when they get roasted on a straightaway/apex exit, i.e.; "yeah, but I'll KILL you in the twisties")??
The 2000 IS a very balanced, responsive, tossably agile little car, BUT it DOES have it's limitations, however high they may be.
SORRY but you're wrong and I've got lots of seat time in the car over the past few years to back it up. I'm talking about road courses like NJMP Thunderbolt and Lightning and the North Course at Pocono where there are sections of closely linked turns. And twisties is not a ricer term, it's something I expect to see in a Dan Neil review in the WSJ. Cars that I can consistently be quicker than in in these sections: Nissan 350/370Z, C5 Vettes, Porsche Boxsters up to the 987 chassis (I only listed cars I encountered multiple times over several years as a good sample). Now pretty much any C5 Vette will walk away from me on a straight but that's not what I'm writing about.
^^^SORRY, but NOT with equally skilled drivers, and equal rubber/brake pad compounds on anything more open than an autocross course with 5' radius turns in it.
Maybe THIS is what you meant by your "twisties" (a term I HATE, BTW, since it is soooo 'ricer' sounding, and their first reflexive reply when they get roasted on a straightaway/apex exit, i.e.; "yeah, but I'll KILL you in the twisties")??
The 2000 IS a very balanced, responsive, tossably agile little car, BUT it DOES have it's limitations, however high they may be.
SORRY but you're wrong and I've got lots of seat time in the car over the past few years to back it up. I'm talking about road courses like NJMP Thunderbolt and Lightning and the North Course at Pocono where there are sections of closely linked turns. And twisties is not a ricer term, it's something I expect to see in a Dan Neil review in the WSJ. Cars that I can consistently be quicker than in in these sections: Nissan 350/370Z, C5 Vettes, Porsche Boxsters up to the 987 chassis (I only listed cars I encountered multiple times over several years as a good sample). Now pretty much any C5 Vette will walk away from me on a straight but that's not what I'm writing about.
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