Rear wheel drive and snow

James_N said:
Spent another day in the S2000 with no problems what so ever :D Everyone managed 20 years ago with all the crap RWD cars around then. Dunno why so much has changed. Media hype doesn't help with the "OMG you will die if you go outside and drive!"
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Those cars had skinny little tyres, most new RWD have big fat tyres. Pretty simple really.
 
MX-5 is safely tucked away at the back of the drive - the VR-4 is ready and waiting for it's time to shine!

Unfortunately, that's pretty much all it's done here - shine! Clear, bright, sunny skies, and not a hint of snow!

I'm tempted to go visit some friends in areas where it IS snowing, just so I can have some fun driving in it!

Earlier on this year, the VR-4 was wonderful - even with it's wide wheels, the 4WD and Active Yaw Control really helped out!!
 
This was it last year :

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Went to Norfolk last week for a coffee tasting event and to finish off the christmas shopping *I now no loonger have to deal with the crowds - YAY!* and I was going sideways around the roundabouts near my parents place at 10mph ish.

Great fun for a short while, but over 20 miles or so - it's a bit tiring.

Given the entertainment I had getting out of the drive in January *I couldn't* and adding to the fact that I've got Bridgestone RE040's on all round - a tyre known for being utterly hopeless in the wet...

My RX8's staying on the drive.
 
Yup, even in 3rd gear, because the roads here aren't gritted properly (one of the gritters overturned as well according to colleagues) ice has formed as well as slush so rear wheels spin and you go diagonally forwards on most turnings!

When it's just snow though I had no problems with traction. Ice and slush? different game man, different fun game!
 
my snow shoes have finally arrived today, will get to test them tonight, see if I can get up my hill! Need to find some ballast for my boot, should be some scrap chunks of metal lying around somewhere in the factory.

Started sliding on a sweeping corner on a main road near home at ~5mph last night, really panicked as there was a family with 2 young children walking on the pavement directly in my path. Managed to get some grip about 5 feet safe (after a 15 foot or thereabouts 45 degree slide) but even still was a fairly (un?)sticky situation

Tom.
 
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Winter tyres are awesome. I was expecting massive delays into and out of town, but to my surprise I did the journey in the same time I would with good weather because everyone was hogging the clean lanes leaving me to cruise along the snow-covered ones at my leisure. Most of the time I was doing the speed limit or a little over and felt completely planted. I get a surprising amount of traction from the lights too. They really shine on slushy roads where everyone else is crawling along at 10 mph. I did brake tests on each new section I got to and most of the time I was able to stop quickly with little or no slipping. I'm actually grateful I don't have ABS, on my last car it was kicking in when I really didn't want it to.

I had great fun yesterday hustling along local back roads, and finished off with a mammoth session of power-sliding and doughnuts in a nearby retail park. Happy happy joy joy! :D
 
10cm of snow here now.

The traction control is surprisingly good, doesn't prevent you moving at all. And for lols if you plant your hoof you don't accelerate much at all, but you do get a pretty orange light.
 
BigglesPiP said:
10cm of snow here now.

The traction control is surprisingly good, doesn't prevent you moving at all. And for lols if you plant your hoof you don't accelerate much at all, but you do get a pretty orange light.
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Turn it off, find carpark, do donuts!

:)
 
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