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Originally Posted by ovekvam
Yes, why not?
Mostly I am a passenger in other people's cars, giving advice.
Sometimes I drive their cars, or bring them along in mine.
The basic skills are the same for driving different cars. The fast ones reach a higher speed down the straights, and require a longer braking zone, but the corners are rather similar. Rookies usually learn faster in slower cars, since there is not so much power available to make up for mistakes made in the corners. In a fast car, you can do okay laptimes with sloppy driving (there are some nice Nissan GT-R examples on Youtube), but that is not possible with slow cars.
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140 bhp rwd is fine for learning fundamentals and makes sense in Norway given the price of cars there and no doubt numerous seasonal ice circuit for winter skills tuition. One of my 1st cars was a Morris Minor 1000 with cross ply tyres - great for crafting drifting skills at sub 60 km/h speeds!!
Alas driving for 30+years and done numerous road trips, track days and car club events during that time, even with a tasty driver at the helm, knowing that it has <50% power of my road car, not for me I'm afraid.