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What the flippering heck does "playful" mean in that context?!
I'm guessing it means too responsive or reactive, in that the slightest twitch means you shoot across two lanes in an instant if on the motorway, or plough into someone's house otherwise!
Also the tiny steering wheel, which I gather these things have, must make the steering even more dangerous, unstable, and hard to control!
Mr McClurg added: 'The steering on these cars is manufactured to be quite playful,
What the flippering heck does "playful" mean in that context?!
I'm guessing it means too responsive or reactive, in that the slightest twitch means you shoot across two lanes in an instant if on the motorway, or plough into someone's house otherwise!
Also the tiny steering wheel, which I gather these things have, must make the steering even more dangerous, unstable, and hard to control!
A Mclaren crashed near us a few years ago, flying down the autobahn (driven by one of the heirs to BMW) and he hit a Trabant. Guess which one could still drive away?
Isn't that the whole idea - that the car takes the hit, leaving the occupants unharmed? I know when my wife wrecked my car, the damage to car looked awful - but the occupants were all fine.
If you watch f1 you'll know they always talk about a 'survival cell' that contains the driver and all the other bits of the car are designed to crumple or shatter and absorb energy in a making it look more dramatic than it really is kind of way.
So I imagine McLaren are using the same principle in their road cars.
Probably shouldn't have caught fire though. F1 cars don't do that these days.
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