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...)

I know, it's unsourced nonsense from teenagers who've never seen a real burnout, let alone done one. But where do you find sources on burnouts? Karldoh 11:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Could someone please explain what is supposed to be appealing about such a stinky, expensive, ecological disaster? I am utterly baffled. There has to be some reason?

All motorsport is stinky, expensive and ecologically disastrous... Also people like it. Karldoh 11:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

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There ought to be description and images of static, spin and rolling burnouts in motorcycling. Ferdinangus 12:13, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

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How about 'History of the burn out' :-) - Anyone ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xigan (talk • contribs) 20:06, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Smoke

How about some information on what type of liquids that one can pour on the ground and then spin the tires on to make more smoke? I have heard that bleach makes quite a bit of smoke but have never tried it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Docktergonzo (talk • contribs) 16:44, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

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some idiot spelled tires tyres. moron. as to the person saying that burnouts are hard to do in FWD cars: I had a 1995 regal and didnt even need to put the E-Brake on to get the front wheels to do a burnout. simply push the pedal to the floor and the front weels do a burn out before the car starts to accelerate