What do you REALLY mean by "conti feel"?

[RadX]

u really are waiting for ppl to run you off the road

[Renegade]

Even Toyota is trying to add "conti feel" in their design to infiltrate the European Market.

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/conte...signer+dialogue

 

They actually NEED to set something up to determine what "conti feel" is?

 

As for the small car-conti feel part, not too sure about that, man. I was tailing this beetle-green Toyota bB today and it sure didn't give much of a conti impression....

Edited February 12, 2007 by Renegade

[Renegade]

Like I said - no diff.

 

Either way will get run off so....

[Magfocus]

I don't think throttle response is any slower on Conti cars. They feel about similar. Depending on the car also of course.

[Renegade]

Speaking of "depending on the car", I wonder how "conti" would the Agyo-based Pugs or Outlander-based 4007 be....

[Magfocus]

Like i said, 'conti-feel' is so subjective and intangible. Hard to verbalise or quantify..

[Binxuan]

http://www.euroncap.com/content/safety_rat...ings.php?id1=10

 

Very few Jap cars managed to score beyond 4 stars for this standardised safety test which has been extensively done on most models of cars on the road.. But then, this test being a Euro based one means that there is a big bias towards conti cars..

[Furrynadz]

so a euro based safety test is biased towards conti cars

i think u better go explore more into wat is safety rather than just have airbags and hard metal

[Binxuan]

i am merely suggesting that a possible bias may be there.. haha maybe u would like to enlighten me?

Edited February 26, 2007 by Binxuan

[Furrynadz]

wat possible bias is there

2 cars smash into the same object

2 cars get smashed side on by the same object

 

u dun get a conti car smashed by a japan sushi roll while the japan car gets smashed by a demolishing machine

 

if there is any bias, u think cars like cherry qq go for ncap for fun and let the whole world see a zero ncap score?

 

a dummy costs $100,000++ , u think it costs $1.50 sushi roll? if its indeed biased then why do all car makers submit their vehicles for testing

 

http://www.toyota-europe.com/innovation/te...v_ncap_2004.asp

take a look at the eu toyota models

look at their scores compared to the tomyam models

 

the difference is in the equipment spec level for the particular market

obviously lives in land of smiles are cheap, or hyundai singapore decides u can get by with zero airbag and survive a head on

Edited February 26, 2007 by Furrynadz