Are rear wheel drive cars a fuggin liability??

[Richard]

I drove RWD cars almost exclusively for five or so years after passing my test. I think I only had one unplanned swapping of ends, in a Marina naturally, despite driving like a twat on mostly balding and always poor quality rubber. I have to say none of that RWD chod, with the exception of the Marina again, ever failed to proceed on snow. Maybe 155x13 tyres weren't so bad after all.

[Richard]

I drove RWD cars almost exclusively for five or so years after passing my test. I think I only had one unplanned swapping of ends, in a Marina naturally, despite driving like a twat on mostly balding and always poor quality rubber. I have to say none of that RWD chod, with the exception of the Marina again, ever failed to proceed on snow. Maybe 155x13 tyres weren't so bad after all.

[cort16]

Older rwd are better on snow for sure. I had a 1.6 cortina with winter tyres on the back and it was mega in the snow but I think that was down to skinny tyres and no power.

It only ever went sideways in an unplanned manor once and that was because I was driving like a twat.

[cort16]

Older rwd are better on snow for sure. I had a 1.6 cortina with winter tyres on the back and it was mega in the snow but I think that was down to skinny tyres and no power.

It only ever went sideways in an unplanned manor once and that was because I was driving like a twat.

[garycox]

My FWD cars (esp. the A series Metro and current Maestro) have been GR9 in the snow.

 

I've not had many RWD vehicles that I've actually used for driving and that. I did have an accidental drift in one of my Transits when it was empty and I was driving a bit fast on wet roads though.

 

Apart from the transits, the ex-Wuvvum Carlton was awesome, probably my favourite car I've owned. If it wasn't horrifically rusty I'd still have it now. I'm always on the lookout for another but they don't come up in that spec (2.6 Auto estate) very often.

 

The Simca and 126BIS don't have enough power to get into trouble (plus the Simca's always broken anyway )

 

I don't see a 'problem' with RWD, but having said that, I don't really get what the 'advantage' is either.

 

My on-topic anecdote for this thread is that one of my earliest memories is of my mum driving my dad's Mk2 Capri 2.0GL to Sainsbury's, on the way she got a massive OMG DRIFT YO on (accidentally) and managed to POWERSLIDE out of it when the back end was about 0.02mm from a load of railings. She's driven FWD automatics since then.

[garycox]

My FWD cars (esp. the A series Metro and current Maestro) have been GR9 in the snow.

 

I've not had many RWD vehicles that I've actually used for driving and that. I did have an accidental drift in one of my Transits when it was empty and I was driving a bit fast on wet roads though.

 

Apart from the transits, the ex-Wuvvum Carlton was awesome, probably my favourite car I've owned. If it wasn't horrifically rusty I'd still have it now. I'm always on the lookout for another but they don't come up in that spec (2.6 Auto estate) very often.

 

The Simca and 126BIS don't have enough power to get into trouble (plus the Simca's always broken anyway )

 

I don't see a 'problem' with RWD, but having said that, I don't really get what the 'advantage' is either.

 

My on-topic anecdote for this thread is that one of my earliest memories is of my mum driving my dad's Mk2 Capri 2.0GL to Sainsbury's, on the way she got a massive OMG DRIFT YO on (accidentally) and managed to POWERSLIDE out of it when the back end was about 0.02mm from a load of railings. She's driven FWD automatics since then.