Just driven it in the snow

[Darth]

Not great for this weather is it??? Managed two full lock drifts at very low speed on the way to work this morning

Have had a few other rear wheel drives before, last one being an R32 GTST. It was horrific in the snow and ice too but different. Where as the Skyline just wouldn't go up a slight incline due to having no weight over the rear and was pretty tail happy at the best of times with a smidge over 300 horsies, you could predict when the back was going to go and prevent it a little more. Found the 2 this morning was just a case of corner then snap, back ends right gone!

Could be i'm just not used to it yet but certainly wont be letting my other half out in it in the snow (she isnt the most confident driver). Well maybe in an empty Asda car park!

[Si_Crewe]

There's snow in Aberdeen now?

I have the same issues a couple of years ago. I was staying in Stonehaven and I had to creep up onto the A90, heading for Aberdeen, at about 5mph.
If I tried to accelerate at all the back end would just slide.

Whenever you make a comment about the way the MR2 slides you'll get some test-pilot replying that it IS possible to drift an MR2 if you're a good enough driver etc.

Go to Youtube and do a search for "MR2 drift" and there's quite a few videos on the subject.
Funny thing is, in almost ALL of them, the person demonstrating how it "should" be done (often stars like Keiichi Tsuchiya) will spin it or lose control at some point.

If you translate that kind of performance to the road it equates to making it around the first corner and the second corner and then sticking it through a hedge at the third corner.

Compared to a car like my BMW, which can slide so neutrally that it isn't even un-nerving when it begins to slide, the MR2 is really too unpredictable to slide deliberately.

I've never spun my MR2 since I've owned it but I've come really close a couple of times.
It's certainly not something I'd ever try to deliberately provoke. One poorly positioned cats-eye could mean the difference between a spectacular powerslide and a long stay in hospital.

Also, be warned that, because so much of the weight is over the back, the MR2 is just as tricky at the front in bad weather too.
Often you'll be busy worrying about keeping the back in line, only to find the front running wide on icy roads as well.

I'm a recent convert to these things: http://www.autosock.co.uk/
Well worth the money IMO.
If you drive fast with them on you'll ruin them but for trundling around at 30mph in snow they're utterly brilliant!

[Darth]

Yeah, been coming down off and on most of the day. Just managed to scare my fiancee on the way to her sisters too

Have watched the drift bible a few times before and he does ay that it takes much more skill to balance the mr2 over the likes of a hachi or sx. Is definately going to take some more getting used to than i thought! Know what you are saying about the front end too. In all my slides today i thought it was the front drifting out then by the time you can start working on correcting that then the back end is off instead. All good fun though