Or a wet twisty?

Hear it mentioned all the time, just not sure what this make believe animal really is?

 

AFAIK, it's some species of whirlwind that has travelled over water, picking up substantial quantities of moisture in the process.

I really, really hope this helps.

 

Bored were we Gary ?

 

It's also a type of umbrella handle. I think that's what people are mostly on about when you hear it referenced. A wet twisty would be difficult to grasp by those without opposable thumbs, such as non subaru drivers

 

I actually asked this as a serious question

Is it a piece of road with a wee kink in it?

Is it an 'A' road with several kinks in it?

Is it a country lane hardly wide enough to take a push bike down with 90 degree switchbacks?

What is it?

 

what do you think it is?

 

probably someones favourite piece of road that they believe themselves to be invincible on

 

It's a term used by Clio driver's when comparing their cars handling to lesser species (such as 911's, Enzo's etc).

 

This is a piece of tarmac an Impreza driver believes his car is invicible due to 4WD grip.

The fact he is on 3mm nang kangs is niether here nor there.

HTH

 

There must be loads of Clio drivers on this Forum then !

 

hahaha, haven't you got a twisty then?

 

Check out Photos > Turini 2005
for examples of twisties used on the Monte Carlo Rally

 

it is where subarus dominate as in i would have had him in the twisties ,hope this is helpful
martin

 

So it a mythical beast after all

 

mythical beast eh...another name for a troll Gary?

 

"What's a twisty"

some new homosexual position dreamt up by the wanna be racing driver "ring masters"?

 

LOL

Perhaps "the twisties" is actually the name given to the point after which the driver of the better/faster/more expensive/classier/more powerful/better handling* car decides that the road conditions have become such that to demonstrate the superiority of hos or her vehicle over the rather less capable car driven by the brainless idiot is not worth the risk of damage or injury?

The "wet twisties" is simply the same by at lower speed.



* delete as appropriate

 

What's a "ringer"? Is it like an arsehole?

 

You stalking me

 

A twisty is a small vole like creature. This nocturnal burrower often builds it blimpertywomble (or nest) in the banks or edges of small streams and ponds. This is because they feed on newts, toads and disguarded tampons. The population concentration of the twisty is in the north of the country and the Twisty World Appreciation Team work out of their head offices in Rochdale.

 

Ok so it's the point where one person gives up and looks for a 'get out clause' .........I would have had him in the twisties / wet twisties

With you now

 

nah...just pointing out the obvious

 

A twisty is a porsche 944 masquerading as an elite sports car in a pseudo nouveau riche moment, abstractly drawing freudian conclusions from the sale of a clio and ability thereof to perpetuate advanced driving beliefs on an internet car forum.

Or a road with bends.

You decide.

 

A twisty is a piece of elasticated rope which keeps your trouser bottoms at the regulation length, they took over from Putties in about 1980ish

 

Its a well documented Subaru Impreza fact that the twisty is as follows.

" twisty" Winding piece of B road or general corner. Used by the owners of Subarus, to explain that the car they own or have on silly HP, is faster than anything else built by the hand of man.

" The gallardo pulled maybe a length or two on me up the straight, but I dropped a cog (changed down to the below gear) and ******* hammered him through the twisties"

" I thought that exiges were suppose to handle well, i was behind one in the twisties the other day, and I stayed right with him"

" twisties" also appear on tracks, although most Subaru owners prefer to stay away from these so called " tracks" There has been very well documented cases of twisty bragging Subaru owners being made to look silly by owners of 1,2's.

The "twisty" speech is often used as a defence mechanism, when trying to avoid the often touted question of " couldn't you afford the one with leather seats?" and " isn't that the peasant spec cheap version they did"

Replies to this question often last in excess of 20 minutes, as they bang on about power to weight ratio.

The minimal saving in weight and gain in performance is often lost, by Subaru owners filling the rear parcel shelf with 400 kg's of magnetic music generating equipment, But the power to weight is not effected and the car will still do its "book" 0-60 sprint in 5.5, although many Subaru owners believe this to be mere propaganda, spread by Subaru marketing department. It is popular scoobynet myth that a Subaru can and will infact, rotate the earth backwards around its axis, should it accelerate at full "chat" 0-60 is often "sub" 5 seconds

Other popular yet unconfirmed myths, say that the Subaru is also capable of beating a saturn five rocket into earths lower orbit, some conspiracy theorists have also questioned the 1969 moon landings, beliving again that a cover up was lead by Subaru, when infact the Astronaughts travelled into space using a stripped Subaru.

In order to achieve handling required to concur the "twisty" many Subarus are retro fitted, with a performance air filter and " zorst" giving on average a gain of 20-30 hp on standard, rolling road printouts have revealed in excess of 350 hp, with "just a panel filter" Subaru owners are marched at gun point and forced to purchase H+R coilovers, by the Subaru gestapo. Improving cornering speed by a factor of 7000000000 percent, H+R'd Subarus have been known to remove the tarmac from the road surface, and kill their drivers with excessive G loading

Modern science has yet to find a car capable of beating a Subarus in the "twisties" scientists have recently pointed towards a possible method of bending the space/time continuem in order to master time travel, this is the only possible way that mankind, can possibly get from point A to B, in less time than a Subaru.”

 

You copied that out of the dictionary didn't you?

 

great post, i think you covered all the bases there except maybe the gold wheel thing. thanks for the grin

 

No the SN Plus Pack

 

They are related to the Haggis. Get them all the time up here in the Highlands. Thats why you hear a lot of folk refering to the 'great twisties' on the scottish roads.

 

This is a great post we should maybe start a Scoobynet dictionary with some other common words/abbrieviations like

What is:

1) BOV
2) Oil
3) Decat
4) Gold
5) PPP