Steve M. asks if anyone's FWD vehicle has ever lost traction going uphill (frontwards). When my Vgon's ignition unit died, I had my wife pull me home ignominiously behind the old Integra. At one point we had to stop at a stop light on an upslope, and she had to try a second time, feathering the clutch very delicately, to avoid wheelspin getting the two cars started again. FWD is great because the front wheels are always pointed exactly where the drive wheels want to go, which is not true of RWD. But in special circumstances, you can spin 'em. B. Wm Kennedy kennedy@admin.njit.edu
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