*nods*
I had a feeling you, too, misunderstood what I typed. Sorry I hadn't made it clearer ... thought I had
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Both of your experiences sound as if they were in the really extreme weather conditions, along with the side roads, no? Either way ... winter driving can be very hazardous at times, no matter WHAT you are driving, imho, anyway.
Take for instance ... today. En route home from work (~4:45p central today), we had snow coming down at a rather quick clip. The forecast had been for an inch of accumulation by evening, but if that was an inch of snow, I'm the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. I brushed off AT LEAST an inch of snow from my '87 MC LS before I LEFT work.
Anyway, en route home, I went by numerous skid outs and 2 major collisions. The 2 major collisions included a Toyota minivan, Honda Accord, Olds Bravada and (I think) a Dodge pickup in one ... and a Ch#$r%*et Blazer along with an '80s Buick LeSabre (I think) in a ditch in the other. The two vehicles in the ditch looked like they were trying to hide the fact that they were kissing
. he he
Meanwhile ... I had NO problems navigating the snowy roads in my RWD '87 MC LS. Yeah, it slipped a couple times, but nothing that I wasn't able to immediately correct...and I was never in danger of hitting anyone because I kept a safe distance between vehicles. Sadly, I can't say the same for the guy in the brand new FWD Cobalt that almost rearended me ... SEVERAL times ... because he kept putting on the brakes too late and skidding to a stop.
And, no, I wasn't going any slower than anyone else. You can't go much faster when a car ahead of you is only going 10mph ... when I was hoping they'd speed up to at least 20mph....
Which just illustrates my opinion that, positives and negatives for RWD, FWD, AWD and 4WD aside, if you don't know how to handle your car/truck, it doesn't matter what wheel(s) are driving the vehicle..... But, unfortunately, it seems, most people either don't agree with that or don't get it....
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