Suzuki Samurai was Re: [geeks] SPARC proprietary (waaaay

[Kevin]

This is true.  With the exception of icy roads, it's
real hard to screw up with a narrow tyre, front wheel
drive car.  Little Honda Civics are usually passing me
up along with the SUV people as well and more power too
them.

/KRM

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:30:19 -0400
Mike F <lists at mikef.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Well, that goes the other way, too - some cars are
> much _better_ suited to rain than others. My wife and
> I's Hondas both have skinny tires compared to other
> cars in their classes, and they don't even seem to
> notice when it's raining. Front-wheel drive helps a
> lot, too - if the car loses traction, it keeps going
> straight in the direction it was going. For these
> reasons, I'm actually usually one of the faster
> drivers on the road when it's wet, because it just
> doesn't impact my car's performance as much as, say,
> a rear-wheel drive, fat-tired vehicle. Regardless,
> when conditions are bad I tend to stay much farther
> away from other drivers, lest they "go sideways and
> flip"