rally car??????

[ed edd eddie]

a guy at work has asked why are most of the rally cars left hand drive?

[Banishit]

there not, theres lots of both

[Troll]

He prob means the WRC cars, surely its cause most rallies are abroad where LHD is the norm ?

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[Kel]

LHD just seems to prefered position by drivers.

some poor co-drivers get stuck in the middle of the rear seat...

[TimGR]

Well, how many Brits or Japs compete in WRC/foreign rallies? They are LHD because most of the world and most of the drivers, drive LHD.

I drive both a left hooker and a RHD car. The left hooker is far more natural to drive, changing gear with the right hand.

[graham John]

as above really, and also as most of the top guys are non Brits and thus feel far more comfortable driving with what they are familliar with,


cheeRS

[ed edd eddie]

thanks for the coments thats basically what i told him and yes it was meant for wrc, he was thinking they was more into it than that!!!

[KL]

Many cars are designed for lhd and simply cannot be converted because various bits are in the wrong place.
Many road cars of course are also a bodge when converted to rhd - a lot of current French cars' windscreen wipers are simply wrong for rhd, early rhd Golf Gti brakes worked by an horrendous bar across the car etc.
Tony Pond was offered a works Toyota drive for 1981 (a time when Toyota had just been leading the RAC Rally ahead of the much-vaunted eventual winner, Toivonen) but Pond demanded a rhd car. They felt they couldn't produce one without compromising other aspects of it and he was lucky to pick up the only remaining serious seat (DTV).