[Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?

[Paul Nimz]

My SHO with winter tires is the best car I have ever driven deep snow or on 
ice.  I did not have any winter tires for my RWD cars so I guess I am not so 
sure of this.  But with the FWD and the awareness that the front can't do 
two things well it pulls through the snow tremendously.  I do miss the rear 
end steering that can be had on the RWDs.

I also don't live on a dirt road.....

Paul Nimz
'97 TR
'93 EG mtx


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donald Mallinson" <dmall@mwonline.net>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>; "'V8List SHO'" <v8sho@v8sho.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Pontiac unveils SHO successor?


> 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.