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Originally Posted by gunsmoker
Ùh, positioning the engine as low as possible for a low center of gravity and good aerodynamics is not something that helps navigate flooded areas. Is there any stats on corvettes, porsches, lotuses, lambos and other performance cars for that matter?
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Porsches and lambo's do pretty well in that regard. Any car with a mid or rear engine does.
Not because the engine is that low, or even the air intake is that low, but the air intake is situated in the back, which means its located behind the bow wave and thus in much lower water.
It's the bow wave that sends all that water in the air intake in front engined cars. So if you want to wade through deep water with your front engined car, driving in reverse is the best thing to do.
Like I said, look up the rufford ford on youtube. hundreds of clips from different youtubers with all kinds of fails and you can make a whole study about how the water flows around cars going through too deep water. Some cars do unexpectedly well and some.....not so much
Rufford ford is now closed as it grew more and more a place where the local 4x4 club started to race through the water, which attracted huge crowds (lots of kids), but also started to cause dangerous situations, so the police acted on that.
The clips with ridiculously high water where people still think it's perfectly possible to cross were my favorite. So many cars totaled....
A BMW edition