burden@cheers.DEC (Dave Burden --- 381-2559) (11/15/84)
It just so happens Saabs do have their emergency brakes on the front wheels, regardless of what certain off road rallists do to their 'stock' Saabs. As far as I know the only five cylinder cars these days come out of Germany. Your account of how a front wheel car takes a turn is...well it could be cleared up a bit. Under normal circumstances there is no difference between a front or rear wheel drive car. If, however, the car starts to slide you have to do different things. Steer into the slide and keep your foot on the gas (fwd) to help keep the front end out in front, any abrupt changes could be harmful. With a rear wheel drive car let off the gas to slow the rear end down and again steer into the slide. All this is not needed if you notice that you're going where you want to go anyway. So you end up in your driveway sidways? :-) I usually use my hand brake for invoking a slide if I get bored, but it is useful for slowing the rear end down, just don't lock the rear tires. And don't forget to hold the little button in so the brakes don't stay on when you let go of the handle. Dave Burden decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-cheers!burden 603-881-2559 DEC Nashua, NH -- The opinions expressed above might be those of somebody else, but probably not -- "Howard Johnson's! Howard Johnson's!...Wanna eat some clams?"
djl@fisher.UUCP (Dan Levin N6BZA ) (11/20/84)
>Your account of how a front wheel car takes a turn is...well it could be >cleared up a bit. Under normal circumstances there is no difference between >a front or rear wheel drive car. Not true. At speed, a FWD car pulls through turns, which is a rather different feel from the push of RWD. Many performance drivers prefer RWD for this reason, FWD cars (for the most part, the Prelude is a notable exception) just do not handle as predictably at speed (and I do not mean 55 MPH). -- ***dan {allegra,astrovax,princeton,twg}!fisher!djl The misplaced (What *are* those trees doing??) Californian
dw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng) (11/27/84)
The current issue of Car and Driver has a articl comparing several high
performance tires. Interesting enough, they used both FWD and RWD cars.
The results seem to show (to me, at least) that there is some difference
between how tires perform on FWD and RWD cars (there are certainly other
factors than this, of course).
BTW, please no flames about the article. I didn't agree with it's conclusions
either. It's simply interesting.
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/Don
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