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Shad,
yer the big engineer here, so I am not going to argue with most of your points because I'm sure you'll know 10 more circumstances to back up your claims. (I'm an engineer too, just not too many discussions about water treatment around here..hehe).
All I know is what I've driven in autocrosses. And thus far, my standard beetle is my favorite car to autocross. I love its handling and like I said before, it's simplicity. I've autocrossed several strut equipped cars and even tinkered with their suspension a lot, and I'm more impressed with the toughness of the front end of my beetle. I slapped on a swaybar, a koni shock, and adjusted my camber to -1.75 and the car handles very well and is very predictable. No strut car I have driven has felt this good on stock springs (although when I bought the car, it did have adjusters on the beam already).
Now if someone could just teach me to drive, I might bring home some wood from the races..hehe
Nick
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