<OT> Swedish Cars (was Re: suse 8.2 networking)

[Leon A. Goldstein]

Jack Berger wrote:

> Yeah, that's the one. Don't know where you live, but in snow the FWD is much better than RWD.
> Of course one of the things w/FWD is that you can dig yourself deeper into situations that a
> RWD wouldn't get you into in the first place.
>
While I was in Germany I'd mount snow tires on my Peugeot 505 diesel.
It has a limited slip differential.  I was mobile and in control when
FWD's were
slaloming all over the place.  Of course,  I knew what  I was doing.
One vital thing is never use the brake pedal.  With the diesel, all
braking on packed snow or ice
is by regulating engine speed.  People get into trouble when they rely
on technology instead of common sense and knowledge gained by
experience.  Of course, that applies to Linux too.  (See, I got this
thread back on topic.)

>
> My history w/volvos only goes back to 98 when I bought a 96 850. Of course they're now owned
> by ford, so they will probably evolve into a piece of high priced junk over the next few
> years.
>
Actually, the 850's were made originally in Holland, in the former Van
Dorn's automobile factory.  They used to make a car called DAF.  One
model was the Daffodil.


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Leon A. Goldstein

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