Talk:Burnout (vehicle)

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Someone wrote that burnouts are extreamly easy to achieve in FWD vehicles - It's 99% wrong!

FWD cars always have it's engine in front (maybe there is some very rare exeption, but only one I can remember is... Forklift) so more weight is on front axle, which means also more grip on it. Handbrake can only slow down acceleration of a vehicle, but in most cases it can't stop it. I know some guys making burnouts in a FWD vehicles. One in some Toyota made it by stopping over a speed bump which stopped it's rear wheels, and another in VW Golf needed few people to push his car back in order to do burnout without moving car.

The only case when burnout only with handbrake is possible is when front wheels has less traction than rear wheels, like when few people are sitting in baggage compmartment or standing on rear bumper, or when front wheels are on wet or sand...

Mibars from polish Wikipedia (yeah, my english is far from perfect...)