| Re: [GMCnet] My rant on 'FWD cars are wrong' again [message #81330] |
Wed, 21 April 2010 11:15 |
rallymaster
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Registered: February 2004
Location: North Plains, ORYGUN
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Actually, due to the weight transfer, you don't get better traction going
uphill with front wheel drive. It's just easier to control your
direction of movement.
RonC
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:19:57 -0300 Kingsley Coach <kingsleygmc@gmail.com>
writes:
> When I see police cars going to FWD's Then I'll become a believer!
> FWD was
> just a way for the automakers to save weight and better improve gas
> mileage
> and in the process converted countless minds that they were doing
> it
> right!!
> Yes, they may have better traction in snow going up a hill, but as
> for
> handling, RWD can out handle any day. If you drive anywhere except
> up
> hills......you figure it out....
>
> Today's 'preaching' from NS
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:09 PM, D C *Mac* Macdonald
> <k2gkk@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> >
> > When I took Driver Ed in high school in the winter of
> > '54 back home in the snowbelt of western New York, I
> > had quite a few miles more under my butt than the other
> > students in my class. Our instructor had me take our
> > cheap Dodge 4-door with three-on-the-tree up a winding
> > and wide brick-paved parkway on the snow. He told me
> > to put it into a skid to demonstrate what to do. I did
> > a back and forth fishtail for about a hundred yards in
> > the curves. I think a couple of girl student drivers
> > in the car came close to messing their undies.
> >
> > I still hate front-wheel drive. They will start up
> > better than RWD, but when it comes time to turn, the
> > front wheels tend to just plow straight ahead.
> >
> >
> > * Mac Macdonald *
> > * Oklahoma City *
> > ** "Money Pit" **
> > * '76 ex - P.B. *
> >
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> > > To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
> > > From: shawnee@charter.net
> > > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:58:32 -0500
> > > Subject: Re: [GMCnet] My rant on 'FWD cars are wrong' again
> > >
> > > [quote
> > >
> > > I remember back when I was about 14 in Michigan my Dad took me
> to a
> > > local lake which would freeze with about 6" of ice in the
> wintertime.
> > > He had me drive on the ice and while going at speed had me turn
> the
> > > wheel all the way to one side and when the car would start to
> slide
> > > sideways he showed me how to turn the wheel in the direction of
> the
> > > rear slide. It didn't take look to learn how to get the car out
> of a
> > > slide.
> > >
> > > I feel that this has saved my life a few times. I remember once
> when
> > > driving a car in NJ on I-80 just west of NYC where two cars in
> front
> > > of me suddenly slid sideways. I was able to swerve between the
> two of
> > > them and straighten out and continue down the highway while
> they
> > > crashed into each other. Another time in Michigan a car spun out
> in
> > > front of me and I was able to swerve my motorhome on the ice
> until it
> > > also started to move sideways and then I corrected and went
> straight
> > > down the outer lane around the car that was still spinning.
> > >
> > > I don't think today's average driver has ever had this type of
> > > training and probably never will.
> > >
> > > Emery Stora
> > > 77 Kingsley
> > > Santa Fe, NM
> > > [quote]}
> > > When you grow up in the hills and mountains of WV with crooked
> roads and
> > snow on the roads a good part of the year, handling skids like
> this is a
> > normal reaction.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Gene Dotson
> > > 74 Canyonlands
> > > www.bdub.net/Motorhome_Enhancements
> > >
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> Michael Beaton
> 1977 Kingsley 26-11
> 1977 Eleganza II 26-3
> Antigonish, NS
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Ron & Linda Clark
1978 Eleganza II
North Plains, ORYGUN
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