I think I do know what you mean...given the water bed suspension on ours there's a feeling of "balancing" the car. It's entirely possible to make it lunge and lurch on the throttle if done in a cack handed manner. Driving it fast with passengers always puts me in mind of carrying a pile of something slippery fast (games in sellophane perhaps from an old job)...get the force applied wrong or in the wrong direction it falls over.
A modern engine is probably less likely to be "machined with a knife and fork by the council"...to borrow a phrase so less crud to self clearance. Although if I'd realised we'd still have it 7 years later the running in period may have been less full on. At least it never really got to be used at low rpm until later in life as it's not particularly happy at low rpm boosting on E10..it used to live above 1750 it just never had smooth lugging power that seems to have arrived with higher octane E5 from lower in the revs.
A modern engine is probably less likely to be "machined with a knife and fork by the council"...to borrow a phrase so less crud to self clearance. Although if I'd realised we'd still have it 7 years later the running in period may have been less full on. At least it never really got to be used at low rpm until later in life as it's not particularly happy at low rpm boosting on E10..it used to live above 1750 it just never had smooth lugging power that seems to have arrived with higher octane E5 from lower in the revs.
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