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georgeszaslavsky
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Don't get me wrong I do like some italian cars such as the 365 gtb4, the 512BB, the maserati ghibli, the maserati merak and of course the bizzarini 5300 which were some of the finest italian cars of the era

ever made. BMW,I know a friend of my uncle who had a 3.0 CSL for a period of 10 years, he always complained of poor handling of the car in wet and conditions but also the engine needing an extra fine tuning every 6 months due to carburettors but also one of the biggest drawback of that car was the body frame prone to rust. He later restored it and sold it and bought then a 930 turbo. My uncle's stepbrother had 1980 a Mercedes w116 a 450 sel 6.9 car, handling on dry roads and in curves as well as comfort was top but he disliked the three speed automatic gearbox and the handling of the car on the wet roads, after having owned it till 1988 and taking care meticulously of it, he sold it and bought a 560 sel which is still today his favorite car.

My father before I was born had a 2002 turbo (before that he owned a 1966 Chrysler New Yorker) he owned it from 1973 till 1978. The turbo was very fragile, the fuel consumption was quite huge and the handling was quite poor under wet conditions. He sold it and then bought a Rekord E1 that he kept till 1988.

You literally killed me of laughter when saying "American muscle cars from the 60's and 70's couldn't take curves worth a damn and had dead feeling suspensions and steering - they were lumbering hulks using sheer brute force to overcome caveman engineering. (I thank you again for that) But who said american cars can't handle nor taking curves? Gnereally this kind of negative talk against muscle cars was generally done European journalists and perhaps people who have never driven cars with zero electronic assistance. Now let me prove you the opposite of how ell an American muscle car can handle not only in straight but also in curves.

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