What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[scootr]

Been a minute but I went from Sacramento to LA (mom's house) or San Diego (girlfriend) quiet often in early 80's

In 1980 highway 15 from San Diego north was partially a 4 lane road with a couple of traffic and a few uncontrolled crossings lights

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Interesting. I wonder if it has more to do with weight distribution? The MG-B GT had an almost perfect 50/50 weight distribution, honestly something like 51%/49%. But the Golf GTI has listed distribution of 60%/40%, which horrendously bad, worse than most modern muscle cars.

On skid pad, the 60 mph stopping distance on a 1973 MG-B was listed at 175 - 185 feet, whereas the recent Golf GTI's have been around 100 - 110 feet. I'm not sure how that would translate to snow, but you'd better believe antilock would be working hard to achieve minimum stopping distance under any conditions, given the big brakes they put on those today have no trouble locking up.

Weight distribution could've been a factor, but the Golf R should be a bit better than a GTI, having the AWD.

Anyway, the brakes on either of my two cars might as well have been 5-inch drums. Doesn't matter how good they are on pavement when there's a few inches of very hardpacked slick snow on top of it.

Normally it should've come down to tires, but the Golf's superior tires didn't do any good when the ABS wouldn't let them do their job. And I should point out that I only applied light pressure on the pedal - all that should've been needed to slow down from about 50 to 10 mph over about 350 feet on that surface.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^
Sometimes being able to lock the tires briefly allows them to cut through the snow to a more solid surface.
Or in my case yesterday, stopping when I put the brakes on would have kept me away from the ditch.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

In my case described above it would've taken a decent burnout with tire chains to get down to the pavement.