[FC] Tire Safety *rant*

[Ron]

My Rampside is terrible on ice, the worst car I have, The Toyota Solara is 
the best.
RonH (Washington state)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel McGregor" <joelsplace at earthling.net>
To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [FC] Tire Safety *rant*


>I always figured the safest thing to do is don't hit anything by learning 
>how to drive and driving something that goes where you point it or modify 
>what you have until it will.  That's one of my favorite things about 
>Corvairs - they tend to go where you point them or at least the EMs do. 
>LMs aren't as good at that.  All this front wheel drive spin about working 
>better in ice and snow is just a lot of advertizing garbage.  The only 
>place I've noticed that a front wheel drive car works better is from a dead 
>stop in ice.  Once I'm moving give me a rear wheel drive car any day.  I 
>have a FWD car I drive most of the time because it gets 30mpg but I drive a 
>Corvair or my '82 Malibu (with sway bars adjusted for some oversteer) when 
>the roads are slippery.  I made the mistake of driving my FWD with new 
>tires the other day in the ice and was concerned about getting home in one 
>piece.  The Malibu came out the next day with bald tires and did much 
>better.  You can always steer a RWD ca
> r with the rear wheels but FWD stuff tends to not steer at all.  I've 
> never driven any of my FCs in ice but I'm sure they are better than any 
> FWD car.  AWD is another story but I don't have any of those.
> Joel McGregor
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