"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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"Adrian" wrote in message
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Anyway, the VdP ADO16 was never anywhere NEAR as amusing as the VdP
1500... The posh Allegro.

The Allegro was amusing just by being an Allegro. Which bozo thought of
having a square ("quartic") steering wheel, given that the whole point
of a steering wheel is that it is circular and rotates about its centre
so it feeds easily through your hands as you turn it. Any "lumps" in
the circle make this very difficult.

Gives you more leg clearance and better view over the top. Or that's the
idea.

Very laudable - but a wheel should be *round*, dammit :-) Anyway, it's only
better leg clearance until you turn the wheel slightly and one of the lumps
bashes your thigh.

And perhaps to look more like a racing car - after all, the Allegro was
only one step away from that.

Ah yes, I was forgetting about the Allegro SRi twin-turbo V8 3.5 litre :-)

Mind you, the elastic (sorry, Hydrolastic) suspension might have limited its
road-holding on a race track :-)


I still reckon an Allegro with a Rolls Royce / Van den Plas radiator grille
looks especially absurd.