[Sacajaweau]

Stopping time?? Huge loss of friction....

We put some extra pounds in the trunk in winter time.

[cripplecreek]

Stopping time?? Huge loss of friction....

I leaned that lesson in a hurry some years ago when I bought a Festiva. Anti lock brakes and all and it still slid on dry pavement in a hard stop.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

If those things crash and catch on fire, I bet they will burn hotter than the surface of the sun.

[Grams A]

We put some extra pounds in the trunk in winter time.”

Used to live in Kansas and had to drive on lots of hilly terrain. Snow and particularly ice were bad in the winter. We always put several bags of sand in the trunk of all of our cars beginning in October or November and left them there until spring. My dad had four 100 lb. weights he always put in the back of his pick-up. This extra weight, together with steel studded snow tires, pretty much allowed us to get around in the winter.

Female question maybe - but will the lighter trucks still be able to pull and haul as much as the ones available now? My grandson uses a pick-up to haul a lot of stuff so we might need to think about replacing his current one before the new ones are the only ones available.