• titanicx@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    The new ones corner well. The old ones, well, pull up some of the old top gear episodes where they tested vets on their courses.

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      6 hours ago

      They handled well for the time they were manufactured. Comparing old cars to new ones like that isn’t really fair. Even a modern Honda Accord could outperform a C3 or older Corvette in every category. The difference in aerodynamics, suspension, and materials technologies, plus computer control, makes that big of a difference.

      Matter of fact, if I remember correctly, a modern Honda Accord Sport has a faster Nurburgring lap time than an R34 Skyline, which was one of the fastest production cars of the 90s. That’s how quickly car technology advances.

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        4 hours ago

        Also tires, whatever came on a c3 is way worse than modern tires are. Its a huge difference.