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AFAIK the better electronics never came, but that lurching is exactly what the AFM relocation totally cures.But the system isn't without fault. There is still a pause from the engine (that seems to vary from car to car; the first EXA I ever drove was terrible on this score, this ET quite good) as the throttle is closed during upward gear changes.
Worse still, when driving the ET on a winding mountain pass with very tight turns, I spent some time driving flat in second gear, lift off, turn, flat in second, lift off, turn...
At every lift-off under those conditions, the engine becomes snatchy in the extreme. The car lurches violently back and forth in a manner that can do no good at all to drive-shafts, cv joints or occupants' necks. "We know what the problem is and the Japanese engineers have an answer on the way," was Marsden's comment. It's largely to do with the need to keep emissions down, for which purpose the electronics switch off the fuel on lift-off so that raw petrol doesn't go rushing out of the exhaust system. Some more subtle electronics that cut the emissions without the neck-snapping reaction will be welcomed.
That problem aside, the ET behaves itself extremely well.
photoglossy wrote:Wheels, June 1984
Earthbound ET
WTFThe little Exa was the first step; its controversial styling, uncertain dynamics and two-seater body ensured a limited appeal
