06-06-2012, 01:55 PM
Ruan Wrote:If you do like everything numbed to a point where you feel safe, then that's fine...
I personally cannot stand having it all coated in fur to make it feel like it's very solid behind what you feel, I prefer to feel exactly what's going on... When at the end of the day, if you go into a corner too hot, you're still going to get terminal understeer off the road... How much depends on the road state and your tyres...
However, a good cruising car is very much like that, to get the feeling of wafting on the motorway, you have to numb the whole car...
Wouldn't you rather hit a corner too fast, shit your pants, BUT then remember the ESP just saved your car and next years insurance premium....... :think: It isn't there for someone to drive like a cock, but when you do get it slightly wrong it seems to work well, thats gotta be better than a bit more road feel surely? And again with ABS, wouldn't you rather you could still steer in an emergency braking situation rather than writing off your pride and joy into a wall when the wheels lock......
I agree the steerings weird in the golf, but I wouldn't say the steering in the NAD is 'better' either. I'm driving both daily atm and going between them definitely makes for some good situations on the road. The golf's light steering doesn't give you confidence to push through corners at speed....but if you ignore that confidence and push through anyway the golf does hold them surprisingly well (bearing in mind I have decent tyres and gti suspension, 1.4/1.6s are probably shit lol). Keeps up with my mates XS through the twisty's too.......obviously on the straights he doesn't stand a chance haha.
But in the NAD you're always fighting the steering, the rack has far too many turns and every bump or catseye takes the wheels with it. Yes I can feel absoluetly everything through the steering wheel (including bird shit on the road :roll: ) but it doesn't make driving any nicer, if anything it's worse IMO.However, some other 'numb' cars I hate driving. My mums fabia for a start...it has electro-mechanical PAS which is awful, that along with the massive sidewalled skinny tyres makes it horrible to drive quick or corner at any speed lol. Plus the boatlike suspension where it actaully feels as if theres waves in the road.....hit a bump and it's still bouncing half a mile later. The golf's comfy cos it just flattens out bumps with its enourmous weight....but it doesn't 'bounce' anything like the fabia does lol. And as for the i10......well thats just awful....the suspension seems to be very wallowy and unsporty, yet every bump kills your spine...probably due to the chairs being made of old church pews I think...they really are that uncomfortable. My mum doesn't like driving it either....bear in mind she drives the fabia every day........she said she won't even do 60 in the i10 on the country roads as it doesn't feel at all safe round corners......I suppose thats it's high centre of gravity though. :think:
So yeah, the golf is 'numb' compared to some old cars...........but I prefer driving something like that that these properly numb 'new' cars!
