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Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 7,431
Hard-core CEG'er
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Hard-core CEG'er
Joined: Mar 2001
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Originally posted by rearden:
Steering feel. The tightness and road feel when driving near straight beat the Mazda 3, and everything else I test-drove too.
This is one of the main reasons I bought my Contour. IMO there's no excuse for every modern car to not have steering this good. But the only other car I've ever driven that had such good feel was a 2001 BMW 325i. My '93 Lincoln Mark VIII came close believe it or not, but it was a little bit twitchy and overboosted.
The other day I had to drive a friend's '90 fullsize Chevy truck. I was all over the road with the damn thing for the first several miles because it had over 2 inches of free play before the steering would do anything!
My Contour has about an inch of free play; it drives me nuts when people here talk about how they can drive really fast with no problems swaying on the road.
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