how bad is your area with snow

[Forkie]

I must be ageing quickly.Whilst i'm not saying anything is wrong with that clip,i just don't get it.Is it just me,or am i missing something?

[wrighty]

when you see the pros its good, when there entering a corner at 90-100mph a corner and have that much control

like so - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWliAS9wMVs

[Alex Spooner]

I think drifting is brilliantly pointless, but really spectacular at the same time, the skill it must take to hold a car like that. I tried once in a snowy car park, but only succeeded in spinning...

Alex

[wrighty]

I think drifting is brilliantly pointless, but really spectacular at the same time, the skill it must take to hold a car like that. I tried once in a snowy car park, but only succeeded in spinning...

Alex

well its all about drifting as close to walls and cones as posibble

its almost like a "look at me im halfway to crashing, but i can still just miss this come by a cm"

[sally]

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[Rob B]

Why cant I post any pictures? I took some of the 2000 estate in the snow today. It keeps telling me the image size is too large when I know it isnt. I have shrunk them to the correct number of pixels. Has anyone else had any problems with photobucket recently? You can see my snowy pictures here anyway!

http://s766.photobucket.com/home/SD1com/index

Needless to say my Triumph hasn't seen any use for quite a while now, RWD and Automatic on snow and ice doesn't make for a happy combination.

I don't think rear wheel drive has a lot to do with it - our Triumph 2000 estate is great on the snow, as was my Mk1 Cortina years ago, and my heralds have all been great. But my Rover SD1 is not so great - (Correction - it is great, it's loadsa fun! Just watch that back end slide when you apply the handbrake!) the difference is the latter has much wider tyres and a hell of a lot more bhp!

It is wide tyres that do for cars in the snow its true. Our Heralds when i was a kid were always fantastic in deep snow as the skinny tyres just cut straight through the drifts. I remember one very snowy new years eve going with my dad to collect my Grandma from her sisters house in Measham and the little Herald tootled all the way there without missing a beat whilst Range Rovers and Land Cruisers all around us were getting stuck.

The problem with my 2500 is not so much the RWD but the autobox. You cant keep it in a high gear but with low revs like you can in a manual so consequently the wheels just spin.