Re: Re: snow and ice 
  By: Mike Roberts to Joe Mackey on Thu Jan 23 2014 01:32 pm 
 
 JM>> FWD is really good in snow, or supposed to be.  The being its  
 JM>> easily to pull something though snow then push it, as with rear 
 JM>> wheel drive. 
 
 MR> That is what surprised me, Joe. I think the HHR was a Freak. I loved the  
 MR> little, what the DMV calls a truck, and loved the gas mileage, but it 
 MR> scared me to death in the winter. The worse car I have ever driven in 
 MR> Winter weather. After I bought it, I did do some checking on some HHR 
 MR> forums, and it is common to them. Even so far as to say most owners 
 MR> recommended that if anyone drove them up north in serious winter weather 
 MR> as their main vehicle, it was very wise to invest in chains.  
 
You need to weigh down the back - front-wheel drive cars also have all of the 
weight in the front, too. There's nothing to give the bac-end grip. 
 
My parents had the opposite problem - they drove Corvairs in the '60s. They had
to put a bag of sand in the front in the winter! 
 
There's a guy down the street with a beautiful old Corvair, with a NADER/LADUKE
FOR PRESIDENT bumper sticker. Perfect! 
 
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