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Time for some snow tires...  or a Subaru. 

If you have snow tires you'll want to drive full speed

This is why the only inclement weather I will drive in is rain.

Around here, it ices so infrequently, unless you have a death wish you better stay off the road. Good and bad drivers completely suck at driving on ice, and the majority of the students who live in my town are from Southeast Texas or other places that don't actually get traditional winter weather.

I spun one time - a slight fishtail - but I basically just let go of the gas, didn't bother with the brake, and was able to keep my car in my lane going 45 mph. I never ever want to do that again, trust me. The adrenaline rush was insane, and not in a good way.

Once when I was about 16, I spun out on a patch of ice on a curvy road.  I remember watching a mailbox pass right in front of my bumper as we spun around several times.

Fortunately, there wasn't much else to hit and we stayed on the road anyway.  I think that now, as a more experienced driver, I would have been able to avoid it.

But yeah- front-wheel or 4-wheel drive only.  People who own rear-wheel drive around here are nuts.

This thread is a transparent attempt to pimp that Porsche on teh intrawebz!

What, you mean this Porsche?



Come on, I'd never stoop so low.

Hee hee!

I got turned around 180 degrees once and it wasn't snowing or raining or anything. Only thing I can figure is that there must have been oil or some other slippery substance on the road because I did what you're supposed to do (turn the steering opposite of the direction of the spin) but I got turned around anyway. Fortunately I wasn't going too fast and was already braking to stop for red light. Very disconcerting looking at the driver of the car approaching me from "behind."

Oh, pleeeze!  Rear wheel drive vehicles were in the good ol' US of A long before the new fangled front wheel drive vehicles. 

One just throws a couple hundred pounds of sand bags in the trunk over the rear wheels of course.  I got through a few northern winters that way without even using snow tires, thank you very much.

Last edited by Kirk (2007-12-17 3:31 pm)

Malkin wrote:

But yeah- front-wheel or 4-wheel drive only.  People who own rear-wheel drive around here are nuts.

I used to think that, but I've changed my tune.  Front-wheel drive gives you a false sense of security that seems to make people drive far faster than they would if they had a rear-wheel drive.  By the time you realize you're going to fast for conditions in a FWD you're usually in the ditch.

In college we once did an unintentional 360 -complete with cliff drop-off on one side of road and cliff wall on other side.

It was very surreal, we were driving along (at night) and all of a sudden hit a mean patch of black ice.
We ended up going in the same direction we were headed without losing any speed.


A couple years ago I was behind a guy who did a nasty spin-out, and he slammed hard into the center barrier (and bouncing back into the middle of the highway).

I realized I was entering the icy territory he just hit, and had to move to the right lane with no time to see if anyone was there.
I was amazed that 1. I didn't hit the guy. 2. I didn't lose control on the same patch.

It was a full minute before I could catch my breath and phone in the accident. (there was no shoulder so I couldn't pull over.)

I love my rear wheel drive volvo

I once nearly spun out on sand, but I just counter steered, and took off the power.

When it's really rainy here, and there is nobody going out onto this wide street from our mini-street, I like to give the volvo a bit of power, make the rear wheels spin, and do a sort of power-slide out into the street.

I love rear-wheel-drive.