greg surratt

GM's are on the rear. That should cover a large percentage, I would
think.

greg surratt

Or NASA???

tbone

Bullshit. When a FWD slips, a light touch of the gass usually gets it right
back. When a RWD loses traction in the front, your SOL and better pray that
nothing else is around. When they lose traction in the rear, at best
nothing happens but usually the front and rear of the car exchange positions
and again, you better pray that nothing else is around. Then there is the
fun of deep snow where the front wheels plow in and get a RWD hopelessly
stuck. While a RWD car can be made better in the snow with the help of
studded tires and more weight in the rear, a FWD is still better and doesn't
require modification or pre-planning. I have owned nothing but RWD cars all
of my life but when my furnace failed at the end of a blizzard and I needed
to get parts for it, my wifes little FWD Honda Civic got me there where my
RWD Trans-am couldn't even get out of my drive way (and I knew better than
to even try).

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tbone

Like I asked before, which ones?

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mopar440

Me also, just because one of lifes' "pleasures" is to "lock" on the
hand/emergency brake, put the FWD car in reverse and spin "donuts" in a vacant
parking lot
I want to know which cars have the front wheel emergency brake to avoid those

Politics, the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from
the rich.

mopar440

Damn, it's Groundhog day, the "Pats" win another "superbowl" and now I am
agreeing with you??????????
I would never have thought a 50 or 60 series "speed rated" tire would be able
to drive through 9-10 inches of fresh snow driving up the mountain from Reno to
Virginia City and never spin a tire but I did it with an '86 2.2 turbo Le Baron
GTS FWD
A RWD drive car with those tires would have never gotten out of the hotel
parking lot.


Politics, the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from
the rich.

roy

Do ya think that the big tires and more hp might have been the reason the ta
couldn't get out of the drive way. Oh, you said you knew better than to try.
Glad you know your limitations. <BFG>


Roy

stephen harding

Think how much fun you can have with your RWD car with front parking
brakes set!

Now will the donuts tend to be directed in the opposite direction
with such a vehicle?


SMH

stephen harding

Think I'm going to have to add my voice to the chorus of agreement
with you on this.

Actually, the best RWD "snow car" I ever owned was a VW Beetle. The
larger sized wheels, rear engine (with fairly low CG) over drive
wheels, and rear engine weight adding to RW traction when climbing,
moderate vehicle height, and a mostly sealed underside, made for a
much more competent off road/snow vehicle than one would have thought.

There is the argument about FWD torque induced sliding, but I really
think it's minimal compared with what you gain. Weight over the
drive wheels, that a RWD simply can't match. I'm assuming tire type
and tread is constant in any comparison; tires will have profound
effect on traction probably above and beyond FWD/RWD config.

People like RWD for dry road traction during acceleration, but I'm not
talking about that context. FWD is better for snow traction in my
experience and in most everything I've read.


SMH

roy

Well will one of you folks please explain to me why it is that these
supposedly super traction fwd cars are on their roof as regularly as they
are??

Roy