Fun in the snow (without power or AWD...)

[Tom Nas]

Hi all,

Just got back from my parents', and it's suddenly started snowing quite 
hard. Dropped my brother off at his place and I just couldn't resist a 
visit to my favourite empty parking lot for a quick Colin McRae or two.
Now I'm driving this 75 hp FWD 80 with crappy tyres, but when you're 
jerking the handbrake and doing a nice 180 the hardware doesn't really seem 
to matter... after a few near misses with other cars (jeez, I don't seem to 
be the only one with this weird pastime!) I decided to leave the lot (well 
and truly ploughed by now) and do my stuff elsewhere. The noisy exhaust on 
my car is a bit of a giveaway, I didn't want to have to explain my actions 
to the boys in blue.
The 80 seems to be very controllable, no sudden over- or understeer 
reactions but lots of potential fro fun. Judging by the movements of the 
other cars in the lot, either the drivers haven't a clue or the cars do all 
kinds of weird things. I saw this '83 Escort almost tip over after a stupid 
manoeuvre, but which IMO would've been more controllable in my car. And 
there was this '92 Fiat Croma which just ploughed straight on, no matter 
what the driver did.

This would've been so great in my 90q on winter tyres...

Tom