TOT about driving conditions the week
Jules wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:33:56 +0000, Steve Firth wrote:
Dave wrote:
Steve Firth wrote:
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More point to all the people who flagged me down and earnestly told me I
would "never get that big thing up/down that hill" every one of them was
wrong.
I'll bet it had Rover somewhere in its name :-)
Umm no, it's a Ford.
Y'know, I had one of those Ford Explorer things on hire a couple of
years ago and I was thinking to myself when I saw it "uh oh, this is going
to be trouble" (I'd heard lots of bad things about them, and we'd just
been told it was a 4x4 at the rental place, not what make/model until we
picked it up).
Full credit to it though - I got it up and down snow and ice-covered
mountainsides many a time, where there were plenty of other 4x4s falling
off the side of the roads (cars just didn't have a hope in hell, and there
were a few big truck drivers vainly stopped and putting snow chains on -
they were always still right where I'd seen them the next day)
It was quite a nice thing to drive in those sorts of conditions -
quite sure-footed and lots of feedback as to what the wheels were doing.
cheers
Jules
come the electric ar, they will al have AWD, with a motir on each wheel,
and computerised traction control anyway, and for fuel efficiency,
probably deep narrow tyres, just like a Moggie.
So we will be back to the 50's in terms of power and tyre grip, but with
21st century technology controlling it.
The old moggie was a damned good snow vehicle.
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