Omega Owners Forum - Rear Wheel Drive

Auto Addict Administrator Offline OOF's Elder Statesman Posts: 10091 North Birmingham Gender: Drives: 2.6 CDX	Rear Wheel Drive 22. Aug 2006 at 09:59 Out of interest..... http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/07/18/rear-wheel-drive-on-the-rise/
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Tezray Intermediate Member Offline Posts: 264 Bristol Gender: Drives: Omega MV6	Re: Rear Wheel Drive Reply #1 - 22. Aug 2006 at 10:08 RWD is definately the way forward. Since owning my Omega's I cant see myself wanting to go back to FWD, unless it really is a bloody good car!! Switch the traction off, drop a couple of gears and listen to the V6 sing around those bends
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Davey Junior Member Offline Posts: 111 Berkshire Gender:	Re: Rear Wheel Drive Reply #2 - 22. Aug 2006 at 10:52 RWD and 4WD give a far superior and refined ride.
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Markjay Omega Lord Offline Posts: 5452 London Gender:	Re: Rear Wheel Drive Reply #3 - 22. Aug 2006 at 13:38 Tezray wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 10:08: RWD is definately the way forward... ...and sideways...
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Auto Addict Administrator Offline OOF's Elder Statesman Posts: 10091 North Birmingham Gender: Drives: 2.6 CDX	Re: Rear Wheel Drive Reply #4 - 22. Aug 2006 at 18:56 Markjay wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 13:38: Tezray wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 10:08: RWD is definately the way forward... ...and sideways... ....and backwards...
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Taxi Driver Omega Lord Offline OOF Holly Dog Posts: 8413 Swindon Gender: Drives: Fiat Scudo 90 Multijet (whatever that means!)	Re: Rear Wheel Drive Reply #5 - 22. Aug 2006 at 18:58 Auto Addict wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 18:56: Markjay wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 13:38: Tezray wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 10:08: RWD is definately the way forward... ...and sideways... ....and backwards... and for going round corners
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Auto Addict Administrator Offline OOF's Elder Statesman Posts: 10091 North Birmingham Gender: Drives: 2.6 CDX	Re: Rear Wheel Drive Reply #6 - 22. Aug 2006 at 19:03 Taxi Driver wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 18:58: Auto Addict wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 18:56: Markjay wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 13:38: Tezray wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 10:08: RWD is definately the way forward... ...and sideways... ....and backwards... and for going round corners ...and up hills and down dales....
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Tony H Omega Baron Offline Posts: 4164 liverpool Gender: Drives: 2.5 ELITE	Re: Rear Wheel Drive Reply #7 - 22. Aug 2006 at 19:25 Tezray wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 10:08: RWD is definately the way forward. Since owning my Omega's I cant see myself wanting to go back to FWD, unless it really is a bloody good car!! Switch the traction off, drop a couple of gears and listen to the V6 sing around those bends Simple fwd to rwd conversion "drive everywhere in reverse
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Re: Rear Wheel Drive
Reply #8 - 22. Aug 2006 at 19:46

Tony H wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 19:25:

Tezray wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 10:08:

RWD is definately the way forward. Since owning my Omega's I cant see myself wanting to go back to FWD, unless it really is a bloody good car!! Switch the traction off, drop a couple of gears and listen to the V6 sing around those bends Cheesy

Simple fwd to rwd conversion "drive everywhere in reverse Grin

No that's just being silly Grin

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Re: Rear Wheel Drive
Reply #9 - 22. Aug 2006 at 20:25

Auto Addict wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 19:46:

Tony H wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 19:25:

Tezray wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 10:08:

RWD is definately the way forward. Since owning my Omega's I cant see myself wanting to go back to FWD, unless it really is a bloody good car!! Switch the traction off, drop a couple of gears and listen to the V6 sing around those bends Cheesy

Simple fwd to rwd conversion "drive everywhere in reverse Grin

No that's just being silly Grin

That would give some entertaining handling!!

Rwd is better on tyres too, get more even ware

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Do you break V6's as often as TheBoy? Then you need tunnie's towing services, recovery costs are just the humiliation of being towed by 2/3's of an engine

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Re: Rear Wheel Drive
Reply #10 - 22. Aug 2006 at 23:58

Auto Addict wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 18:56:

Markjay wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 13:38:

Tezray wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 10:08:

RWD is definately the way forward...

...and sideways... Wink

....and backwards... Grin

Yep, done that, many years ago, in an old RWD Alfa Romeo in the wet, a small sideways power slide that very quickly became a 180 degrees turn and a beautiful backwards slide into a bus stop... luckily it was 1am so the bus stop was empty, but the Alfa needed a new boot. The bus company, on the other hand, needed a new bus stop... Grin

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Re: Rear Wheel Drive
Reply #11 - 23. Aug 2006 at 06:43

Markjay wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 23:58:

Auto Addict wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 18:56:

Markjay wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 13:38:

Tezray wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 10:08:

RWD is definately the way forward...

...and sideways... Wink

....and backwards... Grin

Yep, done that, many years ago, in an old RWD Alfa Romeo in the wet, a small sideways power slide that very quickly became a 180 degrees turn and a beautiful backwards slide into a bus stop... luckily it was 1am so the bus stop was empty, but the Alfa needed a new boot. The bus company, on the other hand, needed a new bus stop... Grin

B****y maniac.... Shocked

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Markjay Omega Lord Offline Posts: 5452 London Gender:	Re: Rear Wheel Drive Reply #12 - 23. Aug 2006 at 10:25 I was some 25 years younger then... But yes, you are probably right...
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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: Rear Wheel Drive Reply #13 - 23. Aug 2006 at 10:31 I'm so old, I haven't even attempted a handbrake assisted u-turn in my MV6. Yet.
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Re: Rear Wheel Drive
Reply #14 - 23. Aug 2006 at 10:38

Well I have only ever written-off one car (so far hehe), an Alfasud ti (and a very nice car it was too!)

I crashed the other Alfa - a RWD Alfetta - twice (the bus stop was one of them - a head-on collision with a Ford Fiesta with four pensioners who luckily escaped un-harmed was the second) - but on both occasions it was repaired and I finally sold it in working order.

But that all happened 25 years ago! Grin

And yes, the Alfas were great fun to drive... a nightmare to maintain though... Sad

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