Are rear wheel drive cars a fuggin liability??

[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.