addicted Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Trickiest car I ever drove in the snow was a late 60s Zephyr 6. The back tended to get a bit of wanderlust when cornering - a bag of wet sand placed strategically in the boot sorted it. The best by far was a lotus Elite. It was a pig of a car at all other times but put it on a hill in thick snow and it was as good as gold. Carole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldBerkshireBoy Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 The Lotus may have had of of these https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/103829/what-is-a-limited-slip-differential#:~:text=A limited-slip differential%2C or,car's power to the road.&text=In basic terms%2C the limited,grip when power is applied. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendel Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 I had a VW variant, basically an estate form of beetle, air cooled 2.0 litre engine, light as a feather at the front. in snow it would do anything - but steer, you had to dab the brakes to get steering, so a bag of cement in the boot (at the front ) helped, I once went out to meet up with some friends, on a snowy day, taking the short cross country route, at the top of one particularly steep hill i was flagged down by a local, who asked me if I had just come up the hill, yes i replied, why, because even the landrovers havent made it up today, just tractors was the answer, of course, going down the other side was interesting, plenty of braking to get the front round the corners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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