Ok you spend your money .
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I thought it was pretty clear that you were being sarcastic.
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Th Horizon/Omni kerfuffle. Consumer Reports tested one and at a steady dpeed yanked the wheel hard in one direction, never touching the wheel again but keeping the speed steady with the gas.
The car starts swinging from side to side, each swing getting more pronounced until the car actually overturned.
I think Car and driver had the best comment when they said, âWhy would anyone ever do that?â
C R rated the car unaccepitable. I owned one and got great service from it.
The other car C R deemed unacceptable was the VW air cooled bus. It was unacceptable because you could remove the seats and not put the bolts back in the floor and exhaust gas could enter the holes. I suppose that was true, if you were backing down the highway, I can think of a lot of ways that a VW bus was dangerous but missing seat bolts would not be at the top of the list. The heater boxes rotted out in less than 34 years and filled the cab with exhaust fumes , you were the crumple zone when driving it and in high winds you could be blown completely off the road. Apparently those things did not bother C R at all.
We get our beef from an independent family farm up in Luray, VA. My grandfather (who lived in Luray) would go out and pick a cow that he thought would be particularly tasty and buy the cow or half of said cow, and it would be slaughtered and itâs meat packaged up. Heâd take a bunch of meat put it in his deep freezer, and then dole out the rest to friends and family. My grandfather is no longer with us. But we still get our meat from that same farm. Though these days we donât actually pick out the cow. As for butchers in the RVA area the Ashland Meat company and Belmont Butchery are supposed to be very good.
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The test was tugging the steering wheel in one direction, releasing it and noting the response of the car. Known in the car industry as a yaw response test.
Because it is very repeatable test. It allows a direct comparison from car model to car model. It is a test of the dynamic stability and yaw damping of the car and one still used today.
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CR installed âoutriggersâ on cars they were stability testing if they thought there was a risk of flipping. I seem to remember a photo of a Bronco II with them at a great lean, the headline: âUnacceptableâ. Vehicle stability control went a long way in eliminating that problem.
But it only happens if you use exactly the right throttle settingMy children and I owned many iterations of Omni and Horizons and never experienced any stability issues. As a matter of fact, they tracked well and seemed impervious to buffeting from side winds and were excellent in the snow.
My 1975 Civic had a tendency to underdamped yaw response.
I think it tends to be in the nature of light FWD vehicles with a short wheelbase and skinny tires.
then donât choose hell. Granted, I get your point but avoid the place all together!!!