You quickly adapt and get used to the harder feel and noise of a car - People should dump their preconcieved expectations and open their minds to the benefits of taut and tactile. If it doesn't make your back ache or give you a headache then it's fine imo. If wifey doesn't like it, whose car is it? Yours or hers?
peoples opinions count? the red car gave me a headache, so I didn't like it. VWR changed the suspension due to a lot of questions about the solid suspension, and its suitability for the 'mordern ill maintained road'.
Taut and tactile is great, but allied to today's poor roads, and all you get is a 'bucking bronco' ride, that prevents proper application of the highly prized horsepower, and that is how i viewed the red car. Power is nothing without control, taut with some compliance is a difficult goal, and i felt the red car did not have it. it may have now................... I believe the car now has V3 coils and the ride has changed somewhat since i last drove it earlier this year, v3's were fitted for a reason............
just my opinion, and as always ETTO.
....Taut and tactile doesn't automatically mean you'll get a headache. You rode about 1,000 with me to The Ring but I didn't get the impression you were uncomfortable. I've never felt that The Red Temptress was a "bucking bronco" on the occasions I've driven her.
People's thresholds of acceptance are different and I agree that it's very much ETTO.
No I didn't Robin, you are right. if you read my post I state that I have not driven the Red car post the new suspension, the car as I drove her was a pain to drive smoothly. A point that was not lost on Matt or Mark, hence the change to the new V3's which are (i would guess) very similar to yours RR.
the car in the old guise was poor to drive over the standard UK road IMHO.
