Yes. I suppose you missed the part where I mentioned that I won a race with an undertuned R32.
They are quite easy to handle at the limit, being 4WD and all. However, the guy driving the yellow one was pretty sloppy. Now the guy in the Mk V, I'm unsure. I'm not a big fan of FF cars either as I find them hard to handle like you described, but he seemed to drive pretty clean when he wanted to and was bumping by choice when he didn't want to let anyone by.
I also like the Lupos... the cup car race around the Ring was one of the more fun A-Spec races to me. 👍
Yes, I actually did miss that part, honestly. I'm confused, I thought you said you were in an M3 for some reason, but I'm not feeling up to going back & re-reading to see where things got confused. Apologize if you were offended, as I said, that wasn't my point anyway. (Mainly my point was to take the opportunity to complain & whine about my disappointment with the Golf I bought. LOL)
And I just get a little touchy about people assuming that someone's driving "unclean" on purpose. Though I agree, I've seen it, and some people do, sometimes.
I just know that there's probably been times some lotus or bmw driving person in an online game may have thought I was a really bad driver, or worse, a bunter, when you know , the rest of us were in cheap FF cars while they were in a high performance car using the power limiter at 50%, and modulating the throttle leisurely around turns, while the rest of us were having to brake at turns because we actually had to TRY to compete in the race.
I don't get the sense that everyone knows, and this is NOT aimed at anyone HERE, or anyone in particular... that a car that's base is 450pp, that's tuned up to say 500pp, then power limited back down to 450pp, is going to, hands down, outperform a 400pp car tuned up to 450pp, and sometimes even someone driving fast from sloppy corner to sloppy corner, wiping out at every tricky turn, can still easily beat someone driving really clean in a lower performance car, despite the pp limit on the race.
I know this because I've been in races with a 450pp limit, where I was driving fairly clean in a cheap road car - you know, like one that's designed as a commuter car, & kept catching up to a high performance car every time he wiped out at a turn, I would pass, then he'd pass me again, and then I'd catch up to him again when he wiped out again, have to carry on my way, then he'd yet again pass me. And I would NOT be surprised if from that guy's point of view, I was "in his way" every time he had to pass me again. LOL. I'm sure if you'd ask him, he'd probably say something like "there was this n00b slow bad driver I had to pass again and again". haha. I could totally see it. Not even considering that he had to pass me multiple times & why. I could tell by the way he'd pass me every time that he was angry. (You don't need a headset to pick up on these things, nor express them.)
And penalties wouldn't have helped in a situation like this either, it would just make things worse when the guy booted me off the track like a football. The penalty hurts the least performing cars the most. I've noticed that high performance cars can get out of the sand or off the grass WAY easier, and they can accellerate much faster from a spin out/spin off.
I don't think all FF cars are terrible. I think the Lupo is an FF? and I find it very nice. (And yes, I just wish I'd done the lupo race in aspec the first time with a REGULAR lupo - I used a gti cup car and it was too easy - I do like taking road cars on the nurburg track a lot - I think there should've been more nurburg in aspec - seems like it's all just daytona & indy).
The golf though, like the yellow one in the picture, is what I tried. And it wouldn't turn for anything. It won't turn when you're accellerating or braking, and it won't turn when you're not doing those things either! My lupo isn't that disagreeable.
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