Talk:J-turn

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A J-Turn is a driving manoeuvre which is basically a 'backwards' U-Turn. This is also known as a moonshiner's turn. It is defined as turning a car through 180 degrees from reversing in a straight line to driving forwards in a straight line.

The narrowest J-turn was performed in a Ford Escort Estate, in a space measuring 172 cm (67.7 in), by Russ Swift of Darlington, County Durham, England, at the Zenithhalle, Munich, Germany, on April 9, 1999.

[edit] Confusing description

The "backwards U-turn" description seems confusing. In a U-turn, the vehicle's direction is changed, but this manoeuvre seems to describe changing the vehicle's orientation, but not the direction of its travel. -Tobogganoggin ^talk 04:18, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Gotta agree with you there. I've changed the description.--Father Goose 05:11, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Spam" link

(Turned javascript on) Okay, it's got four Google ads at the bottom. That still doesn't make it spam. It's still got content the other links don't offer (a text, not video, explanation of how to perform a J-turn). This is content we shouldn't add to the Wikipedia article, per WP:HOWTO (this edit convinced me that this is a particularly bad idea in this case). But I feel we should link to at least one "how to perform a j-turn" external article, and this is the only one we have so far. Do you have a replacement?--Father Goose (talk) 18:37, 14 May 2008 (UTC)