Anyone else getting some really bad vibes in this thread?
:lol: Too true. When I was 17 I was the best driver in history Makes me feel old :lol: Still a hell of a lot to learn though!It's called being a teenager. At that age you know everything.
:lol: Too true. When I was 17 I was the best driver in history Makes me feel old :lol: Still a hell of a lot to learn though!
Real Ferrari drivers would never let their rolling piece of art out in the snow.
For instance, I was rushing back over Topanga canyon at 60 mph in my aunts x3 because I was running late to my flight at LAX. I took a curve way too fast and I started to understeer hard towards a guard rail, but I saved it. After it happened, I thought that I was an awesome driver for saving it because other kids my age would have crashed. Now when I look back on it 10 years from now, I will be saying how fing lucky I was to not of crashed.
Yes, because bringing an X3 to the limit on a dry road, needs some really silly driving :lol:
However, all you have to do to catch an understeering car, is lift the throttle. So no skills needed there at all, except the one not to panic
What is it? And more importantly, can you kill it with fire?
Err guys, I've gone through the whole thread and I still can not understand this thing you all are calling "Snow".
What is it?
Err guys, I've gone through the whole thread and I still can not understand this thing you all are calling "Snow".
What is it? And more importantly, can you kill it with fire?
Nope, it's just the 2,9 12V with hydraulic lifters, aka; Clak, Clak, Clak... We've had it for a good 15 years and put over 300 000 km on the clock...Which engine does the Scorpio have? If it's the 2.9 24V I hate you.
Don't mix up controlling race cars on a track with mastering a car in daily traffic.
In daily traffic there are hardly ever any situations, where racing drivers or stunt driver can make use of their talents. Mostly because their is too much traffic and the other drivers aren't racing drivers or stunt drivers, therefore lack the discpline and abilities of folks going round in circles on a closed off track and are as predictable as the lotto numbers.
But also because you have to deal with tons of traffic rules, cyclists, pedestrians, animals on the road, constantly changing road conditions, people who suddenly brake without indicating, people taking your right of way, teenage idiots who think they are Michael Schumacher and race themselves in pimped up VW Polos, etc., etc.
There is one anecdote about Ayrton Senna, who got stopped by the British police for speeding. The policeman didn't recognize him, so he asked him:
"Who do you think you are? Nigel Mansell?"
"No, I'm Ayrton Senna".
The reaction of the policeman was not nice...
Anyway, my point being: Racing a car and driving a car are two completely different things. Young racing drivers, like Sebastian Vettel or Lewis Hamilton, don't have more experience in normal traffic, than any other guy at their age (probably even less, because they spend most of their time on tracks) and will probably make the same mistakes and collect points on their licenses -- maybe even more than others, because they might think they are better drivers than others and can therefore stretch the limits more.
Nothing, I repeat nothing, can beat years of experience in normal traffic. And by years I mean years of driving hundreds of kilometers a week. Fooling around doing Scandinavian flicks or making donuts are no substitutes for driving.
I have done a fair bit of winter driving with the cars we have at home, and I have had a few accidents (none of them resulted in any damage to the car though) The first time was when I switched the DSC off on the Jaaag, and floored it, well it spun a few times, hit a snow bank with first the rear, then the front. Fortunately I was able to back out of it and drive home. Then I spun the Scorpio, ending up un a field, again I was lucky, as there was no ditch between the road and the field, so I slid straight on to it. It was no more than a foot-and-a-half of snow so I managed to just drive off it.
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For winter driving I generally prefer the Scorpio (above). Mostly because it has a 5-speed manual transmission and AWD with a 40/60 torque split between the front/rear, and no "electronic-anti-this-and-that" crap in it. The Range Rover has a stupid tration control system that completely freaks out some times, just randomly locking up wheels, and there is no button to disable it. Both last year, and the year before I did a lot of drifting/spinning on empty parking lots with some of my friends at school. That was a lot of fun, and we got a huge lot of snow recently so I'll be back at it....
After researching said "snow" for the last 4 hours, I think it is the same thing as what makes our non-fat vanilla creme frappuccinos cold. I still don't understand how it comes from the sky though.
Seriously though, the climate was awesome on Christmas day and the day following (26th). See this article on LA Times:
Sunny Christmas in Southern California makes it hard not to gloat