ABS is a valuable safety feature. I don't care how good a driver you think you are unless you train yourself in emergency stopping on a regular basis you will not out brake ABS in an emergency. When something happens in front of you, say a child running onto the road, you will plant your foot on the brake and lock up. You may have time to ease off and reapply but you will not beat the stopping distance of ABS. When I was a bike riding instructor I used to practice emergency stopping on a regular basis.
Got to agee. I was converted to ABS when I bought my first BMW bike and the demonstrator told me to go out and brake hard on what was a wet greasy road. I managed to work up the courage to do so and to my surprise the front didnt fold under and I didnt end up on my backside.
Originally Posted by Gambalunga
Regarding traction control: the same applies. How many times have we seen videos of drivers loosing control of super cars because they used too much right foot. As mentioned in another thread most Morgan buyers are no longer young. That equates to slow reaction times, and not all of us were hot shot rally drivers in our youth (even if we thought we were). I worry abut the lack of traction control on a car that has the power to weight ratio of the Plus 6. It is probably not needed on the smaller trads but even a Roadster must be getting marginal.
Here I disagree. I dont see it as a safety aid except perhaps in a car like the Roadster which has IMO dangerously too much power for the chassis. In a well balanced cars a bit of wheelspin is no issue. In fact it can be useful in a FWD car.
Originally Posted by Gambalunga
An automatic with paddle change can be a lot of fun but does take getting accustomed to. I often use it on the Jaguar which is the first automatic that I have owned other than the temporary ownership of a small Mazda when I could not drive a manual till I recovered from an injury. More and more cars will be offered only with an automatic gearbox so you might as well get used to it. The Maserati Ghibli is one example that springs to mind.
There are still those out there who believe the last true Morgan was a flatrad but the world moves on regardless
Yes more and more cars will be autos. There is fun to be had in blipping down a flappy paddle box as you enter a roundabout at speed but the thing that always got me with the F type , and likely will apply to the Plus 6 with the same box, was that it had way too many gears for the paddles to be any fun. There never was a single right gear to be in. Much of the time you never knew what gear you were in.At 40 mph you effectively had a choice of 7 gears. Ridiculous.
