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Originally Posted by NOHOME
Word of advice to those with extra weight in the back:
The Miata guys discovered this 25 years ago and it bears mentioning: The car will want to turn around if it has more weight in the back. Try throwing a dart backwards if you need a practical demonstration.
With snowtires, this car seems perfectly capable unless the weather has reached "nobody should be out here in the first place" conditions. At that point it is a common sense flaw, not a design flaw.
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I'm glad to see this was brought up. The added weight will help with hill starts and generally getting started on ice but if the back end slides out, the added momentum from the weight gain will encourage the car to continue spinning right around. So there's something to be gained and lost here by adding weight.