(my english is not good so please understand me if i made any mistake on grammer)



i saw terrible accident today
there was this one guy in a camaro who was trying to make a left turn in a 3-way traffic
and as soon as he made left turn, he jammed his gas pedal to get along with traffic flow (there is no traffic light on that road)

when he got into his lane,he didnt stop accelerating and lost his control making fish-tail
he crashed into a big tree



watching the accident made me think again about buying rear-wheel drive car


a lot of people says it's really dangerous to drive RWD on a snowy and icy road

do u guys not drive ur car when it rains and snows?

especially when the car is not going in straight line like making turns or driving in a curve, is there more chance to lose control?

 

Learn to handle the spinouts. Take a RWD car in the snow, and practice. Also, the S0-2s blow in anything but dry condtions.

 

It's not that bad in the winter. You just have to be a lot more careful. Forget you're in a sports car, and think safety...get some snow tires, make sure you have life left in them at all times, and you'll be fine.

In the wet, same thing minus snow tires. A car, be it RWD or anything else won't just randomly spin out in the rain unless you're going too fast, or have really wornout tires.

Ice is a different story, but unless you have studs, RWD, FWD, or AWD makes no difference...your probably going to slide anyways.

 

buy a beater for winter, or just for snowy/icy days

 

with So-2's
it's impossible to drive with even a light dusting of snow on the ground
I almost hit a telephone pole, when i spun out i the snow
barely anything on the ground and i was going around 20 mph
I got a beater for the winter
now i drive it when it rains
my S stays nice and dry

 

Like 2d2 said, get some snow tires. It wasn't too long ago that almost every car on the US roads was rear wheel drive. You learn how to adjust, and don't expect that it will handle as well as a FWD car. Actually, a low-torque engine is less prone to spinouts in snowy weather.

Most big cities salt the #$%^ out of the streets, so it is very seldom that you really have a problem. And on the rare occasion that the streets are too treacherous for the S2000 with snow tires, they are probably unpassable for many other cars as well. So consider it a vacation day.

 

Front wheel drive sedan with four snow tires for winter.
Rear wheel drive with four snow tires for fun in winter.

 

RWD is perfectly fine in the snow. I drove my car all winter with Pilot Alpins and it was the best winter car I've ever driven. (to be fair it is the only car I've ever had dedicated snow tires on.) FWD cars have only been popular for the last 25-30 years. What do you think people did back then? Just stop driving 6 months a year? Sounds like the dumbass you saw in the Camaro would have crashed anything he drove. The point being, it's not the car, it's the driver. Always.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Daveg27
[B] I drove my car all winter with Pilot Alpins and it was the best winter car I've ever driven. (to be fair it is the only car I've ever had dedicated snow tires on.)

 

when u drive on a curve and hit the gas pedal hard the car slide to the outter loop of the curve right?


how about rain?