2WD is better in the snow than 4WD - what ?!
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TooMany2cvs said:
RobM77 said:
Plus don't forget that traditionally Volvos were FE/RWD, and they're Swedish...
Did anybody just say Saab...?Anyway, Volvo haven't built a RWD car for two decades, and haven't launched a newly-designed RWD car for 35 years.
Pothole said:
TooMany2cvs said:
RobM77 said:
Plus don't forget that traditionally Volvos were FE/RWD, and they're Swedish...
Did anybody just say Saab...?Anyway, Volvo haven't built a RWD car for two decades, and haven't launched a newly-designed RWD car for 35 years.
TooMany2cvs said:
Pothole said:
TooMany2cvs said:
RobM77 said:
Plus don't forget that traditionally Volvos were FE/RWD, and they're Swedish...
Did anybody just say Saab...?Anyway, Volvo haven't built a RWD car for two decades, and haven't launched a newly-designed RWD car for 35 years.
I've owned sevral lucidas and i have to say they are great in the snow (2wd) but can only be better with 4WD, the 4WD is biased to the rear anyway and the understeer is B/S IME and IMHO.
My last 2WD lucida passed many many vehicals in the last snow we had 4 or 5 years ago, INC a lot of upmarket 4X4s with lowprofile sports tyres! never once got stuck with some air out the rear tyres it was pretty dam impressive mainly for the reasons the seller quotes such as auto so changes up limiting the torque to the drive wheels, lots of weight transfer to the drive wheels (soft suspension) and it drifted very well for it's size, some of the best fun i've had in the snow was in a lucida never snowed when i had the 4X4 but that was way better on wet grass and in mud than the 2WD, snow is actually quite grippy when it's fresh, when it's over ice it's deadly as is anything to do with ice
My old instructor used to say "snow has a finite amount of grip, ice has an infinite amount of slip"
My last 2WD lucida passed many many vehicals in the last snow we had 4 or 5 years ago, INC a lot of upmarket 4X4s with lowprofile sports tyres! never once got stuck with some air out the rear tyres it was pretty dam impressive mainly for the reasons the seller quotes such as auto so changes up limiting the torque to the drive wheels, lots of weight transfer to the drive wheels (soft suspension) and it drifted very well for it's size, some of the best fun i've had in the snow was in a lucida never snowed when i had the 4X4 but that was way better on wet grass and in mud than the 2WD, snow is actually quite grippy when it's fresh, when it's over ice it's deadly as is anything to do with ice
My old instructor used to say "snow has a finite amount of grip, ice has an infinite amount of slip"
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