"Scary__goongala!" (corymagee)
01/29/2015 at 17:20 • Filed to: None
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"Scary__goongala!" (corymagee)
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I realized today that in the 4ish yrs I've had my license, not once have I REALLY driven a AWD car(i.e coupe,sedan). Sure some of the cars at Enterprise when I worked there had it but these were Lincolns and Fusions, plus I wasn't flinging those around corners and what not.
WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe
> Scary__goongala!
01/29/2015 at 17:30 |
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If it makes you feel better, I've never driven an AWD car either, and I've had my license almost 6 years now. I've driven FWD, RWD, and 4WD, but nothing for AWD at all.
BATC42
> Scary__goongala!
01/29/2015 at 17:33 |
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If it makes you feel better the only cars I drove were FWD with the exception of a Mitsubishi L200 (or Triton, same thing). And 5 minutes behind the wheel of an E46 wagon.
thejustache
> Scary__goongala!
01/29/2015 at 17:34 |
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I've been driving for 10 years now and I've managed to own 2 RWD, (BMW), 1 FWD (GTI), and 2 AWD (subarus) cars in that time... definitely have to drive them differently to wring out the performance, but I had fun driving every one of them.
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Scary__goongala!
> thejustache
01/29/2015 at 17:44 |
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Im just curious to feel how its different while driving at speed.
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Scary__goongala!
> WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe
01/29/2015 at 17:45 |
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I still definitely prefer RWD, but I want to see what the difference is.
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thejustache
> Scary__goongala!
01/29/2015 at 17:58 |
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Well really I didn't notice much of a difference until I started learning about weight transfer and how traction actually works. For normal street driving on dry roads I honestly don't notice much difference at all. My first two cars were old RWD BMWs, so I got used to mashing the gas to get sideways. Then with the GTI I learned about left foot braking and getting the weight over the front wheels to kick the back out. In that case to catch a bad slide you could pretty much just slam on the throttle, which is counter intuitive but totally works.
With the two subarus I've had, things really do seem kind of like a hybrid of those two. Of course, I've had pretty base cars, an outback and an impreza - so no fancy diffs or heavy rear sway bars, and my impression is overall things seem pretty neutral with a tendency to understeer at the limit much like my GTI. It's definitely not tail happy like my BMWs were. However, when you start to play around with weight transfer - especially in the winter with snowy back roads like I have here now - things start to get more interesting. With practice you really can use left foot braking to minimize understeer or even kick the back out, and then once that has happened you can control the amount of sideways fairly well with your right foot like you would in a FWD car. I'm no rally driver, but I can definitely see why this is the platform of choice for that. I hope that helps!
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Scary__goongala!
> thejustache
01/29/2015 at 18:08 |
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I taught myself how to left foot brake on my parent's Civic just to make driving it a little more entertaining. But I have yet to try it with the purpose of sliding the car around. No sense beating the crap out of it while its fairly new.
djmt1
> Scary__goongala!
01/29/2015 at 18:10 |
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Same here. I've only had mine just over 2 years but I've driven about a dozen different cars but none of them being AWD but that is probably because track day experiences in the UK don't really stock AWD cars which is odd considering is rains 360 days of the year here.
CPT Speedbump
> Scary__goongala!
01/29/2015 at 21:17 |
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If a Nissan Murano counts as a 'car' and less of a cross over, then I've driven a awd pretty hard..thoughhh, I guess it is prettty close to the Z chassis, and it has a tuned down or..not as tuned up..either, both, choose one - version of the Z's engine. So..I have driven one pretty hard, pretty fun drifting it in snow. Not as fun as my RWD Toyota Pickup or RWD 97' Explorer I once had though
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> Scary__goongala!
01/30/2015 at 07:40 |
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While I agree with the general sentiment on here the it's unneeded 95% of the time, once you've owned a vehicle with 4 driven wheels you'll never go back if it can be avoided.
That is, if the system works. Eg you don't have a Real-time AWD CR-V.