Flat bottomed steering wheels - why??
Re: Flat bottomed steering wheels - why??
Saves owners having to stick a piece of tape on at TDC?
Your 'standard' is how you drive alone, not how you drive during a test.
Re: Flat bottomed steering wheels - why??
Horse wrote:Saves owners having to stick a piece of tape on at TDC?
If you've got a Clio, they do it for you!
Picture of Clio interior
Apparently there's a real need, so much so that people do handy "how to...." articles (the comments are good though):
http://www.mclarenlife.com/forums/mclar ... range.html
Re: Flat bottomed steering wheels - why??
crr003 wrote: (the comments are good though):
Oh yes
Your 'standard' is how you drive alone, not how you drive during a test.
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Re: Flat bottomed steering wheels - why??
crr003 wrote:Horse wrote:Saves owners having to stick a piece of tape on at TDC?
If you've got a Clio, they do it for you!
Picture of Clio interior
It looks stylish doesn't it? To be honest on the road I've no use for it what so ever. Maybe it would be useful on track, but I doubt it as it has a reasonably quick steering ratio.
It does make it more obvious when you grab the opposite side of the wheel for a tight turn or slow manoeuvres. That may be a good or bad thing based on what side of the fence you sit on.
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Re: Flat bottomed steering wheels - why??
GTR1400MAN wrote:crr003 wrote:Horse wrote:Saves owners having to stick a piece of tape on at TDC?
If you've got a Clio, they do it for you!
Picture of Clio interior
It looks stylish doesn't it? To be honest on the road I've no use for it what so ever. Maybe it would be useful on track, but I doubt it as it has a reasonably quick steering ratio.
It does make it more obvious when you grab the opposite side of the wheel for a tight turn or slow manoeuvres. That may be a good or bad thing based on what side of the fence you sit on.
Stylish?
https://goo.gl/images/Ei1PjQ
Now that's stylish. A wheel. To steer with. Minimalistic.
Re: Flat bottomed steering wheels - why??
crr003 wrote:Stylish?
https://goo.gl/images/Ei1PjQ
Now that's stylish. A wheel. To steer with. Minimalistic.
Nah, it's still got a gratuitous airbag. And you have to cope with being reminded you're driving a vauxhall all the time
Re: Flat bottomed steering wheels - why??
To assist texting? Has anybody else also got flat bits on the bottom of their tyres?
Re: Flat bottomed steering wheels - why??
jont- wrote:crr003 wrote:Stylish?
https://goo.gl/images/Ei1PjQ
Now that's stylish. A wheel. To steer with. Minimalistic.
Nah, it's still got a gratuitous airbag. And you have to cope with being reminded you're driving a vauxhall all the time
oooohhhh, badge snobbery!
A good car is a good car.
Re: Flat bottomed steering wheels - why??
crr003 wrote:jont- wrote:crr003 wrote:Stylish?
https://goo.gl/images/Ei1PjQ
Now that's stylish. A wheel. To steer with. Minimalistic.
Nah, it's still got a gratuitous airbag. And you have to cope with being reminded you're driving a vauxhall all the time
oooohhhh, badge snobbery!
A good car is a good car.
Agreed! But that's a Vauxhall
Re: Flat bottomed steering wheels - why??
Horse wrote:Saves owners having to stick a piece of tape on at TDC?
Many moons ago, when the earth was still flat, and I reached the legal age for driving I had lessons.
The instructor employed by my mother, a moonlighting policeman, had the three spoke steering wheel upside down with a spoke pointing to TDC.
I found it really annoying even as an, almost but not quite, ab inition driver.
The smell of stale beer and cigars I could cope with, but that damned steering wheel
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