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Rear wheel drive or front wheel drive ?

What do you think about driving with cars in snow, ice or mudy ways ??Do you think front wheel drive cars are better or rear wheel drive cars ?? And why ??Do you have any reminiscence about it (good or bad) ?? ;pMore points for the best and complete answer !!!

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Front wheel drive cars are better in case you drive on slippery roads. Rain and snow, maybe mud. However people accustomed to rear wheel drive dislike the behaviour of front wheel drive cars - (overturning and underturning tendencies) - You will prefer to drive what you are accustomed to.
front wheel drive is better in the snow. Generally will have more weight over the tires with the motor. Generally with rear wheel drive cars pushing the car the rear end will just slide out right or left before it will go straight. Front drive cars will not do that no where near as bad. Plus you have control over the driving wheels a lot of times when you lose traction you can just rock the steering wheel back and forth to regain traction. you can get a understeer effect when turning in snow with a front wheel drive car means you turn the wheel the car goes straight. it's easy to get a feel for that and it's something that's easily controlled.
If all the points you listed fell solidly to front wheel drive why are dragsters rear wheel drive, why was Chevrolet allowed to alter a car to make it rear wheel drive by Nascar, why are Indy cars rear wheel or all wheel drive. The answer is simple, real performance requires rear wheel or all wheel drive. Front wheel drive is less labor intensive to assemble in the factory. That is the only advantage. For the young man and the snow theory. Snow driving is about traction, nothing else. Drag racing is about traction, nothing else. Physics say very simply, when accelerating weight transfer is to the rear wheels. Not the front. Fact that the front wheels are under power and turning eliminates snow piling up in front of the tires. Poor drives will do better in snow with front wheel drive, good drivers (snow proficient) do as well or better with rear wheel drive. Remember Weight Transfer. Like I said, front wheel drive is easier to produce. It has NOTHING to do with better, safer or any other er you can think of save cheaper. I will give the manufacturers credit, they have managed to put a few horsepower in a front wheel drive car. Apparently they have finally gotten a handle on the torque steering that plagued all the little bitty bite size stuff that used to come in from Japan.

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