[Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?

[Donald Mallinson]

Like I said, I have had both, and RWD, even with winter 
tires still won't take you through snow as well as FWD.  The 
right tires make a HUGE difference in compentency in any 
vehicle, but especially RWD.  My Mustang with two winter 
tires on the back would go real well, but it wouldn't turn. 
  With four winter tires, it would have been a lot better. 
But my SHO or any FWD with the same two winter tires (this 
tim on the front) will go AND turn better than the RWD Stang 
(or other RWD cars).  With Four winter tires, a FWD SHO 
becomes the equal of snow plows in many ways!

There is a reason there is no such thing as a rear drive 
horse drawn vehicle.  :)  The advantage of the "emissions" 
being in back beside, LOL, you just can't PUSH something 
through muck (snow/mud) as efficiently as you can pull it.

That, flat out, is why FWD outperforms RWD in those situations.

Oh, and you correctly brought up a fun point that with FWD 
you can "test" for ice/slick conditions easily without 
spinning out.  I have been doing that for years.

Don Mallinson


Ron Porter wrote:

> As I mentioned earlier, when my wife & I were living in Chicago, we replaced
> the useless Eagle GTs on her '89 GT 5.0 5-speed (and those tires were even
> bad in the wet in summer) with some good all-season tires, and that car was
> as good in the winter as the SHO.
> 
> Years ago, I believe that much of the issue with RWD in winter were the
> generally crappy tires available back then.
> 
> Ron Porter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Mallinson [mailto:dmall@mwonline.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 11:08 PM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net; V8List SHO
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?
> 
> 
> My Mustang without real winter tires was positively helpless 
> in anything over a dusting of snow.  EVERY FWD car I have 
> had, including the MTX SHO is a huge leap forward in 
> traction in those conditions.