ABS... I had this on my Lotus Exige S2 Supercharged cars and also on my Lotus Evora.
Even on track days, I never felt the ABS coming on... or saw it, courtesy of the little ABS light that came on when the ABS was activated. I knew where the limit of the tyres was by experience and feel... not relying on 'stamp on the brake pedal' and hope for the best! Sure... the wheels won't lock. But if you do this in mid corner on a wet road, even ESC differential braking will not be able to compensate for weight transfer and hence un-loaded tyre/road interface. At least with no electronic intervention, you can feel that happening!
I learnt to drive on a 1962 Mini 850! No ABS! No TC (43 bhp!!). No synchromesh either! You learnt from such a car how to drive to the limits of tyre adhesion, cornering, braking. Obviously not accelerating! So I always felt, translated to 'modern' electric cars, that I had an 'advantage'... in being able to 'feel' the interaction and adhesion limits of the tyres... and as such, learnt to drive accordingly, with many 'lessons' in 'get out' options! Cadence braking, steering, weight transfer to get the chassis to move about to assist faster and safer driving!
Young drivers of today have never had this. Sad really. Because, even with all the electronic trickery in modern cars, physics is physics. Friction, velocity. They still exist!
Plus Six. Great it at least has ABS. Still find it hard to understand why they were not able to 'pinch' or translate the BMW 140i powertrain, with TC and ESC etc, into the Morgan. It was obviously an expensive R and D exercise to do so. I juts hope the Plus Six does not end up us a 2019 vision of the 1980's TVR's.
All good stuff. Time will tell a great story here, especially if we re-read this thread in a few years time...
Love my underpowered, skinny tyred lightweight trad 4/4!
