I am one of the few people left that believes a true raw performance recipe is rear wheel drive + manual transmission + light weight = fun. That said, as much as I love rear wheel drive, you really need to know how to drive it properly. Get it right, and it’s one of the more satisfying experiences in life. Get it wrong, and you’re going to be making an embarrassing phone call to your insurance company.
Case in point, a lucky person found a nice road to take their BMW M6 for a drive on. However, the driver is either too inexperienced with rear wheel drive cars, or was foolish enough to take the traction control off when the road surface was obviously slick. If it was on, the system would’ve helped to correct the slide and a crash likely would’ve been avoidable. Either way, he sends the M6 into an over-steering drift which he (or she) is unable to do anything about.
The end result is an M6 in the ditch. The crash didn’t seem too serious, so I assume the driver was okay, but the damage to the M6, no matter how minor, is likely to cost an arm and a leg.
Let that be a lesson to everyone out there. Sometimes traction control can be your friend, despite how annoying and intrusive it can be. If you’re inexperienced or the conditions aren’t the best, you should probably just keep it on. FAIL to the M6 driver for not realizing that.
Sidebar, the exhaust note of the M6 before the crash was sick!
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