Weak sauce. First good snow here in Canada I go out to a parking lot and practice hard braking and recovering from slide outs... comes in handy during the worst of Winter. I do miss my rear wheel drive Pontiac Acadian though... super fun for sliding around.

maybe it helps with traction? (like putting sand bags in the trunk of a rear-wheel-drive car, or bed of a pickup)

rear wheel drive, high-torque sports cars do this more often than you'd think, especially when the driver hasn't bothered to learn the specifics of the car and/or respect its power.

It's been a very long time since Toyota has had a car like this. I think this will be the next major tuner car for gear heads. The mild difference between the Subaru version and the Toyota (Scion) version is going to make the Toyota much more appealing (unless it becomes too common and people get the Subaru just to have a different badge, and color options, then modify the suspension themselves). Toyota is talking about using the same flat boxter engine with turbo applications in future cars (rumors are about it being the next Supra), but the turbo combination doesn't seem likely to make it to America any time soon. Fortunately, Toyota knows what it has and is trying to court the after market tuners. They've already given an FR-S to GReddy, and it's only a matter of time before AEM, HKS, and the other attainable tuners start pumping out functional improvement modifications.

The engine hits the ideal 100 HP per liter of engine mark. It's rear wheel drive. It's inexpensive and aimed at a youthful audience. This car's going to be a big thing.

I wish they would include some telemetrics in videos like this. I have no concept of how fast the guy is going. He could be going 30 miles an hour or 100 miles an hour. With my untrained eyes I can't even compare this to anything I've done.


I've driven several powerful rear wheel drive cars in the snow and ice though so I can definitely tell what is going on with the drifting and sliding.

That's a rear wheel drive of course : ) and the propeller shaft is totally fucked I am sure!

Wow...

1. In the beginning of the video, why is she kicking the snow away from the front tires? It's a rear wheel drive vehicle.

2. Why does she have the front wheels pointed to the left toward the building? To me, it looks like you're supposed to exit down the hill or toward the right.

3. If you're stuck in snow, you're supposed to rock the car back and forth going in between drive and reverse.

I wonder if, with a rear wheel drive car, you could just lock your steering wheel. Then they could only tow you in circles.

>> ^visionep:

Always set your parking break.
It forces the person towing your vehicle to have to install the rollers under your other tires and gives you more time to show up and bribe them.

>> ^LordOderus:

What if the car was a standard and was in gear? Wouldn't dragging the tires like that cause damage when they can't roll freely?


The majority of cars on the road today are two-wheel drive. The Chevrolet Corvette being towed at the beginning of the video is rear-wheel drive and the Toyota Corolla at the end of the video is front-wheel drive. In these cases, the tow truck driver hoists the car by it's driven wheels.

In the case of an all-wheel drive vehicle, this solution would cause damage to the vehicle. I would be especially worried if I owned a car that was mostly sold as front-wheel drive, but the one I owned was one of a few rare, all-wheel drive models(which I do). You can't expect a tow truck driver to know the driven wheels of every car ever made, and the ad itself points out that the tow truck driver can do everything without ever getting out of his truck.

It may be rear wheel drive...
Not rear wheel drive, rear engine, as in the engine is in the back of the car, where the trunk would be. Might make a difference that you're not using your engine compartment as the bow of the ship.


I meant to say rear engine, but wrote rear wheel.

>> ^ReverendTed:
Something seemed off with the driver's side front wheelwell after exiting the puddle. Anybody else see that?
I do wonder what the situation was where someone who had spent that much on an Acura NSX would think it necessary to ford through water that deep.


Yeah, the plastic piece in in the wheelwell had come loose. I'm guessing the force of the water rushing through the front of the car and trying to come out of the area near the wheelwell dislodged the plastic piece usually meant to keep rain water out of the front of the car.

The fun of rear engine cars.

It may be rear wheel drive...

Not rear wheel drive, rear engine, as in the engine is in the back of the car, where the trunk would be. Might make a difference that you're not using your engine compartment as the bow of the ship.

It may be rear wheel drive, but certainly the entire interior has suffered water damage. Also, despite it being rear wheel drive, I can't imagine where the air intake is for that car so that it isn't getting flooded.

Also it seems like such a stupid thing to do, I know exactly where and how high up my car's air intake is, and there is noway I would play russian roulette with a deep pool of water. Not to mention my car is worth fractions of what his. Can't someone driving an NSX afford to get their car towed home...well i suppose they can afford any repairs from getting their engine flooded with water.

WTF?? Lack of downforce?

Please explain to my why the fuck you need downforce to go in a straight line? Extra traction, so your tires don't spin? This is not a drag race.

It's a pretty simple concept, you can apply as much torque as you want to up until your tires spin out of control and you hit a wall. He was leaving rubber from spinning tires before he either shifted wrong, or stayed on the gas and rode it into the wall.

I drive rear wheel drive but without so much power. I believe F1 are not 4-wheel drive.

This is what happens when you don't put a strap on the steering wheel (yes, I own rear wheel drive cars)

http://www.videosift.com/video/How-NOT-to-tow-a-car-7-secs

We used to do the same thing with rear wheel drive only backwards. Called it the brain buster.

Negative G's for the win!