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Your Grandmother sounds like such a lovely woman (with a great sense of humor, no one could quote that poem in her will without one). I'm sorry for your loss.
Thank you. She had a sense of humor, even about her will.As above. It does for me.
You might not have noticed, but all A Class have been FWD...
Less so for the A-class as this is targeted at the 2nd car / wifey market. However the CLA is a Belmont too far.
Agree but think Steve is (rightly) pointing out that the orig 2 versions were aimed at a very different market to the 3rd gen which is chasing "sporty" / "enthusiast" rather than 60+ and smells funny.
I've tried to ad a poll. It's not let me, I'll try again.
I've noticed but the new one meant to be more driver pleasure focused as you'll be aware, not a pensioners box to get to bingo and back.
Isn't the Ford Focus meant to be the best handling car in it's class and pretty good all against all others.
It is highly rated - but the reality is that the A is pitching 10-15k higher cost terms - so you would really have to want one to pay that much.
FWD hatches have their place... but magazine rarely test them against cars from other segments for similar money..
I suspect that if you tested a Focus 2.0d and an A220cdi vs a 320d or even the long in the tooth now (compared with the others) W204 they would not win.
The F30 and upcoming w205 will be miles ahead.
Poll put on as requested.
They could have based the new A on a shortened w205 RWD platform too, it's probably near completion.
I hope I am no straying too far off thread here. We thought about a 1 series before choosing the A Class for my wifes car and both thought it looked awkwardly styled versus the A. In addition we didnt want to be branded BMW drivers ( childish maybe but there you go ). For the same reasons an A3 was even more of a no go.
For a small family car we didnt have ultimate driving car handling near the top of the list but time will tell if we chose wisely.
When the poll is up I will vote.
1st choice. perhaps Front and not Four.
I had far too much snow in my F30 in the snow last night... summer tyres, all assists off.. job jobbed. You can have fun in fwd - my Octavia is fwd but it is a different fun and not 30-35k's worth.
As for 4wd. It is for talentless oafs. It is fine for off roading - that is its job. However I fail to see / do not want to see / will not consider / the point for a car.
No front wheel drive voting option?
4WD is not really needed for a modestly powered family car surely?
What Steve is asking is whether as an enthusiast purchase for driving pleasure would FWD really be your choice?
Not too fussed either way, but the A-class needs a USP to make people buy it in volumes. Just having a star on the bonnet wouldn't be enough for me. Economy, refinement, engineering, design, package all need to be answered against its rivals.
Thanks redbaron I understand. But you would need to spend a lot of time at or near the limit on public roads for that to matter in reality. Do many family car drivers actually do that with any sort of regularity? If they do there is the 1 series and if not then pretty much all its competition.
It's more to do with feel and feedback and rwd cars deliver this at ordinary speeds compared to fwd cars. They're just nicer to drive and this is not at Ken Block G attack mode.
I think MBs missed a trick. I'll not buy an A class because of it, and if it were rwd I probably would have.
Looks like you need to wait for the fire breathing 4WD version to get here then Steve!
You don't have the "don't mind either way" option in the poll...that would be me.
Key fob lost programming.
SL400 (R231) - Does a new battery need coding?
thinking of buying a newer Mercedes.., but which one..RIM promises BBX will support BES, carry 1024x600 display
updated 04:45 pm EST, Wed November 9, 2011
First BBX phone to match PlayBook display ratios.
He also gave a clue as to the final design of the BBX phone. While it can adapt to multiple dimensions, the standard resolution for an app would be the same 1024x600 as the tablet. Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis had already given a clue as to the design as early as January, when he suggested it would resemble a vertical PlayBook, but hadn't given further clues.
Saunders' comments indirectly support rumors surrounding the device, nicknamed the Colt. It would be a full-touch phone with a dual-core processor and other modern smartphone features. Rather than clone the PlayBook, however, it would borrow styling cues from the steel-trimmed BlackBerry Bold 9900.
The two suggest RIM intends to have a complete, competitive phone when BBX is shipping, which could be as soon as early 2012. Its troubles had led to some rumors that it would have to skip BES support at first, negating much of the point to getting a BlackBerry for work, or that it would have a lower-resolution display. An increasing number of Android phones, most notably the Galaxy Nexus, have 720p screens or better.Sorry, didn't mean to burst your bubble too much. :/ (Pun not intended)

There are some upsides to a softer implementation, though. And they're upsides that might end up (if they do things right) making this a really mechanically-interesting expansion.

Having every Healer have at least bare minimum some sort of shielding (think Divine Benison on WHM) and having two of them have access to a lot of it (SGE/SCH) gives them more freedom to design fight mechanics, not less. If a mechanic is "shield this or die", it's going to hit up against their whole "job exclusion" thing. 



Overall Party DPS is the universal MMO currency, and devs can use potential increases to Party DPS as a bribe to make players jump through *all sorts* of interesting mechanical hoops.  Because then a job isn't technically being 'excluded', it's just "maybe not fitting the community meta". 

If you expand the definition to include stuff like an "is shielded" buff or a "shield just got depleted" tracking thing, suddenly shields can not only be an extra source of health, but also a proxy or vehicle for all sorts of buffs and fight interactions. All without really leaving any one Healer out unduly (since they'll have at least some access to it, or will have other things they can do). 

I mention those things because similar aspects have been able to be applied from other shield effects (Galvanize and crit galvanize, etc), so I know they can probably work with even the game's haunted-ass code. 

And since it's all, technically, "optional" at this point (in the same sense that most Healer gameplay is "optional", to the devs), they have more freedom to go nuts with it than they would if it were strictly "mandatory". 

That's also why DPS tend to get more involved/interesting Job mechanics/rotations than Tanks or Healers. What they're "required" to do is less (by the devs standards), so they get more polish and work put in to make them appealing. 

So I wouldn't quite give up hope just yet, and sorry that I've contributed to deflating your buzz a bit. I shouldn't let my previous disappointments cloud future hopes for other people so much.A well-designed website can be one of your most valuable business assets, particularly when it comes to marketing. Without a professional, expert web design company to advise you, your website could fail in ways you don’t even realise.
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