On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 07:15:02 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 05:27:04 +0000 (UTC), harry newton wrote:

He who is Clare Snyder said on Wed, 06 Dec 2017 21:32:54 -0500:

With a few inches of slop the FWD starts having an advantage

Yes. With a few inches of snow, the FWD has the weight where you want ti. I
agree. How deep? I don't know. Maybe four inches? Maybe six?


FWD has better traction. Period. It's simple physics.
How much snow? However much it takes to affect traction with the road.
How about 1/16"? How about 1/32" of ice?
I would often lose traction with my RWD vehicles when the road got slick.
That's why I had to put sandbags in the trunk or truck bed in the winter.
I've driven to work in 6" of snow. RWD with 3-400 lbs of sand in the trunk.
The limit with deep snow is when it's high enough to hit the undercarriage.
You'll lift the tires enough so they can't get traction.
With FWD I don't need to put 3-400 lbs of sand in the trunk.


Rear rngine rear drive has the same traction advantage, but with that
nasty rear polar momrnt of inertia - and the tendancy of the floor pan
to toboggan untill the rear wheels leavethe ground. With FWD you can
basically back out of anything you can drive into.

With the fiberglass cap and box liner on my Ranger it gets around
pretty good - the Haks don't hurt either. The taurus is more
sure-footed with the snows - and didn't even do too bad the years we
only had all seasons on it as long as the snow was less than about 4
inches and not too wet.