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Originally Posted by
GXPsy Rose
I grew up driving vehicles when there were no such things as power brakes
(unless you had one of those high faluting caddies). The power was in your legs.
Yes, me too. It was a long time before I drove a Toyota with "power assist". It wasn't the same as the big caddy power brakes..you still had to do a little work yourself. Those old power brake systems would throw you thru the windshield if you weren't used to them. I wonder, tho, if the hydraulics we have now are less beefy in favor of the power assist systems? Even hydraulics is a "power assist" over what would be pure mechanical brakes (like the first cars I suppose), and size of pistons, volume of fluid, etc will have a scaled effect on the effort needed to push the brakes. Which may mean (only a guess on my part) that since the boost does so much of the work, that the hydraulics is not designed to do as much as it would on a nonboost system (are there any, anymore?)
Still, I'm glad I have an '07 GXP. There are enough other things on this car that I am one of the guinea pigs for. lol