Tigdlo wrote:Actually, apart from the colour, I quite like that! But then, I am rather partial to Cortinas.
I can imagine trolling up to the average campsite in that, and the look of horror on people's faces!
Happy New Year to you all.
I liked the Starcraft. I loved it in fact, so I scrounged a hurl in one at a show some years ago and then, suddenly, in spite of its fine looks, superior wheel count and ridiculously easy - 2.3 Ghia spec - power steering, I stopped liking the idea. I'm sure that there must be some mechanically better sorted examples out there somewhere but the one I drove suffered from dreadful handling as the live axle would dictate its course through a bend, yet as soon as the corner became a little skitey the dead axle would load up and effectively lengthen the beast's wheelbase mid-bend! I don't think that I've ever driven another six wheeled device - unless you count two Reliant Rialtos in the same day? - so maybe any car with three axles is similarly random but I'd have had to redesign the dead axle to give the vehicle a touch of rear wheel steering and by then, the money would have gone into a nice JDM import HiAce van with a proper toilet, a shower and a decent cooker.
There was that Ambassador-based, six wheeled camper van in one of last year's PC mags, it was a clean sheet design and looked incredibly clever, but it had front wheel drive and two dead axles at the back. I wonder whether that arrangement is more or less stable than the Cortina with its "middle wheel drive"?
Rich, I found the car of your dreams, go on, you know you need one of these:
The point there being that if you must have six wheels, then the majority of them should be at the front. Possibly?
