View Full Version : why do we have to be RHD in this country!
being RHD means we miss out on several good cars, heres one from opel that wont be sold in the uk because they wont make them in RHD
i would actually buy one of these (http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showDetails.html?lang=en&id=143397029&pageNumber=1&__lp=1&scopeId=C&sortOption.sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&makeModelVariant1.makeId=19000&makeModelVariant1.modelId=13&minPowerAsArray=223&minPowerAsArray=KW&maxPowerAsArray=262&maxPowerAsArray=KW&minFirstRegistrationDate=1999-01-01&negativeFeatures=EXPORT&tabNumber=2)
General Baxter
02-05-11, 12:02 PM
import one then
import one then
drive throughs aint much fun in lhd :(
brainsnova
02-05-11, 12:40 PM
drive throughs aint much fun in lhd :(
You could always reverse round
drive throughs aint much fun in lhd :(
If having to lean over to grab your takeaway assuming you haven't thought of just parking and walking into the shop, is your reason for not wanting one, you obviously don't want one very much do you lol
windfreek
02-05-11, 12:41 PM
being RHD means we miss out on several good cars, heres one from opel that wont be sold in the uk because they wont make them in RHD
i would actually buy one of these (http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showDetails.html?lang=en&id=143397029&pageNumber=1&__lp=1&scopeId=C&sortOption.sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&makeModelVariant1.makeId=19000&makeModelVariant1.modelId=13&minPowerAsArray=223&minPowerAsArray=KW&maxPowerAsArray=262&maxPowerAsArray=KW&minFirstRegistrationDate=1999-01-01&negativeFeatures=EXPORT&tabNumber=2)
that looks like a Mercedes McLaren SLR which has bummed a Tigra so hard its nose has popped thru!
If we're talking LHD, I' much rather spend my monies on this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Plymouth_Roadrunner.jpg
General Baxter
02-05-11, 01:43 PM
drive throughs aint much fun in lhd :(
aha so this is why my mate takes me to maccy lol
paddy quinn
02-05-11, 02:43 PM
drive throughs aint much fun in lhd :(reverse through
lhd is for panseys
I think you'll find LHD is for those that can drive. The best handling cars are always LHD and from personal experience are better suited to the track than RHD. IMHO
MK1_Ben
02-05-11, 03:09 PM
I think you'll find LHD is for those that can drive. The best handling cars are always LHD and from personal experience are better suited to the track than RHD. IMHO
He's kind of right,
Alot of "serious-built" Rally cars are LHD, even ones made in this country (if you attend a lot of the rallies here you might have noticed this). From drivers I've spoken to it's more to do with once you're used to it, having the gearstick and handbrake available to the right hand (which is usually more dominant than the left) it becoming a much more natural driving position.
Plus many cars are designed for RHD so LHD variants tend to be pikey 'bolt-in-bits-to-make-the-pedals-reach' OEM conversions lol
He's kind of right,
Alot of "serious-built" Rally cars are LHD, even ones made in this country (if you attend a lot of the rallies here you might have noticed this). From drivers I've spoken to it's more to do with once you're used to it, having the gearstick and handbrake available to the right hand (which is usually more dominant than the left) it becoming a much more natural driving position.
The big teams tend to make their cars all LHD as they have more naturally LHD drivers, and those that prefer RHD just have to get used to it. Means you don't have to adapt the cars for RHD and also makes them easier to sell on.
As for being better suited to the track, I think you'll find most of the fastest circuit cars purpose built for racing put the driver bang in the centre :p
LHD vs RHD for track would be marginal and depend on whether it was clockwise or anti clockwise and only really have any great use in placing the car on apexes, which even a good clubman driver can do with a precision of a couple inches on the n/s of the car.
peester
02-05-11, 05:30 PM
Napoleon wasnt it? blame the french perhaps?
He's kind of right,
Alot of "serious-built" Rally cars are LHD, even ones made in this country (if you attend a lot of the rallies here you might have noticed this). From drivers I've spoken to it's more to do with once you're used to it, having the gearstick and handbrake available to the right hand (which is usually more dominant than the left) it becoming a much more natural driving position.
I suppose it might be easier if the car's going to be driven between stages in mainly LHD countries - and I guess LHD is more natural for the likes of Loeb Andersson etc who cut their teeth driving LHD.
Also don't a lot of works teams prefer LHD because they can route a straighter exhaust? No steering rack, MC etc in the way.
We miss a few cars from being RHD but the good far outweighs the bad IMO. Any land of the Rising Sun gen? :d
Suppose those cars from the JDM YOOOOO and down under could make up for it lol
Also better weight distribution on lhd single occupant race cars
craig green
03-05-11, 03:09 PM
Its not always a matter of certain models not being manufactured in RHD, Vauxhall probably have the option of selling anything GM, yet they choose what they want to sell from interior cloth trim options to entire models.
South Africa get performance Astra saloons (Belmont GTE's etc), had factory 165bhp C20XE's, put LSD's in their hatchbacks & get Corsa estate, saloon's & pickups.
Seeing as Vauxhall UK is run by old men, we get a pretty bland & safe set of models to choose from. VXR being the risque badge. :d
South Africa get performance Astra saloons (Belmont GTE's etc), had factory 165bhp C20XE's, put LSD's in their hatchbacks & get Corsa estate, saloon's & pickups.
They might have "165bhp" C20XE's, but by the time they reach (the dizzying heights of) south africa, they're more like X18XE's lol
Theres 165bhp standard Xe's on ebay though,so what you complaining for?!
lol
Add some fish and chips and you'll have 300bhp
so opel appear to have made a z3... whoopdi-doo....
as for the lhd-rhd argument...
andy burton (he of crazy 306r4 rally car fame) built a rhd integrale, then fell foul of fia rules on homologation..... he just preferred it...
most race circuits on europe run clockwise, so rhd is inherently safer, as the driver is on the inside of the corner more than the outside, and then as most proper pitlanes are on the infield, the rhd driving position is also preferrable for sports racers as they get in & out on the correct side...
most lhd or rhd only cars are down to where the marketing people expect to sell them.
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