I think the "problem" of today's sports cars is, that they offer more and more power to the driver, but at the same time this power is ever easier to retrieve. Of course this is mostly due to electronic aids that are now common in the automotive industry. Depress the throttle fully in a F355 and do the same thing in a 458 in rain mode. In the first case you will probably fly off the street, in the second scenario the vehicle's electronics regulate everything for you. Because of these electronics the 911 Turbo became a lot more controllable. Finally the introduction of the all-wheel-drive offered a whole new potential regarding its allday usability.

And the saying that the Porsche Turbo models are still more accident-prone than their rear-wheel-driven or normal-aspirated siblings, is in my opinion less a result that the all-wheel-drive simulates a false security to the driver so that AWD encourages him to go beyond firstly his limits and secondly the limits of the vehicle. But it is rather that the Porsche Turbo simply offers such an awful lot of power to which not each and every driver maybe used to. Smiley
 


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