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Originally Posted by akboss

PS, none of these vids show snow (the OP specifically said snow), and the idiots in the last vid are horrible drivers. Of course if you plant the gas down in a FWD you'll spin...that's typically why you start from second gear and ease the throttle.

Now let's see how that goes in snow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97NVgvq2SzY

Let's see how this FWD POS gets stuck...oh wait

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ElgttSQ_v4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5C_q6H5RCY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxbCMzen7mY

and now for some good ol' fashioned winter crack-ups that everyone can enjoy - *highly recommend this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxwgHGCrrS4

First one is a guy screwin around in a Mustang on the ice. Second little group is a bunch of idiots drifing in the snow I presume, wouldn't load for me.
Last one is RWD, AWD and FWD cars and SUVs. whatever.

yay more youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p6bw...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdbLG...eature=related
^ dumb asses thought they could drive a corse in revers lmao. But guess why the FWD car had more grip in reverse? the weight shifter to the drive wheels. RWD car would have less grip in reverse than going forwards. The SUV coulda taken it doin 25 lol was no issue at all.

We can do the youtube war all we want, FWD is still the worst in wet/icy/snowy conditions, hands down.

This is a decent artical on it, http://searchwarp.com/swa51377.htm he doesn't mention weight shifting though.

This argument has been had thousand of times on the internet. A ton of times on here for that matter.

In a FWD car with around a 60/40 weight distribution (front/rear) should have better grip. when you start to accelerate it shifts to around 50/50.
in a RWD car with a 50/50 weight distribution the weight also shifts to the rear while accelerating causeing around a 40/60 weight distribution. Hence RWD gains more grip while accelerating

Weight distribution has less of a shift the slower you accelerate obviously, and returns back to the norm when you start cruising. Thus creating understeer in FWD and oversteer in RWD.

When a FWD car comes into a corner at normal speeds the car will start to under steer and go off the road slightly, much more so at mild-high speeds. Simply because the front wheels have too much to do.

In RWD cars at normal speeds the car has total control due to the front wheels being free to steer while the rear wheels push the car around the corners. Take the corner to fast and you get oversteer, you can correct oversteer, its hard to correct under steer when your sliding off the road.

And just to avoid hearing this argument, if you take a corner going way to fast your more than likely going off the road either way, in RWD you can atleast try to steer the car away from trees and such.