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15 messages, Last post on Mar 13, 2008 at 7:21 AM
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Replying to: stevedebi (Sep 29, 2006 12:45 pm)
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Replying to: gagrice (Sep 29, 2006 12:48 pm) It was good for that, but what was really impressive was the space utilization. This was a station wagon model, and having the engine below the cargo deck, plus having the area under the hood of the car, gave it tremendous capacity. It also had two heaters. One worked by bringing air off of the air cooled engine. The other system burned gasoline in a gas heater! |
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Replying to: stevedebi (Sep 29, 2006 11:29 am) Absolutely! But the question here involves which one is the most safe. With RWD your natural native human instincts come into play nicely when recovering from a skid. Not true for FWD or front biased AWD. Quickly now, I just drove onto a long bridge with a slight sweeping curve outside of St. Regis MT that is totally iced over, tell me how to quickly recover from plowing, understearing, in a non-clutch FWD vehicle... RWD: Get off the gas and let what little traction exists at the rear keep it behind me where it belongs.
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Replying to: wwest (Sep 29, 2006 2:19 pm) If you are totally iced over, you will spin out in any car that does not have studded tires. Go out on a frozen lake sometime and try it. When you let off the gas in a FWD, the car slows, putting more traction in the front drive wheels. So you just steer where you want to go. When you let off of the accelerator in a RWD, you are still shifting weight to the front of the car - away from the drive wheels. As I said before, I recommend some weight over the rear axle for severe winter driving. This equates to having the same weight over the rear tires as RWD, while still having the traction advantages of FWD.
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Replying to: stevedebi (Sep 29, 2006 3:12 pm) That is sort of how the USAF taught me to drive safely and under control in wintertime conditions. They flooded a section of the ramp and then let it freeze so we had a place to practice throwing our equipment trucks into a skid and then recover. I put quite a few miles in on VERY slippery aircraft parking ramps in NH and Goose Bay and never hit a B47 or KC97, or anything else for that matter. That should let you know that this was in the era before FWD. |
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| It is the same hybrid battery as the Escape. It had been sitting 9 hours since I had driven it last. My son woke at 1:30 a.m. to the explosion. Thank God he was visiting us as we did not hear it. By the time we got downstairs after he called for the other vehicle keys to move them away from the Mariner, it was engulfed in flames. A total burned out loss and the first flames were in the cargo area and flames shooting out of the battery vent. BEWARE! If looking wait on the hybrid option! | |
| It was a 2006 with 29000 well maintained miles on it. | |
Anyone have any more information on why the Escape hybrid has a 3 star rating for driver, but 5 star for passenger?
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Replying to: abuck (Mar 09, 2008 9:21 am) |
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