I dream of a turning circle like my 172 did ... tho' not to the point I'd ever change my car from the Vee tho'
. Never had a problem in the 172, but the Vee is humorously bad. Forget driving forward into a parking space, and even reversing normally requires a couple of bites since the width of the typical car park road is too narrow. Forget multistorey carparks too ... even if you can handle the clearances needed for the ramps you're unlikely to be able to deal with the tight turns. Basically think about turning your 172/182 on full lock, but then that lock stopping 40% short.
When Clarkson said "it sounds like a supercar, it's as mid-engined as a supercar ..." (or something like that) ... he forgot to add it's got the turning circle of a supercar
. This is why I was crying with tears of laughter at the TopGear episode where they got the supercars stuck in the hotel car park ... because I've been there too
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The turning circle on our 7-seater Citroen C8 is f**king wonderful tho' ... it feels like it's turning its front wheels at 90% and swivelling on the back wheels
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