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Icy roads are one place where lightweight vehicles really shine. If you get into a skid, it is much easier to recover from the skid in a lightweight car than in a heavier vehicle, whose greater inertia makes skid recovery techniques much trickier to manage. Then if the skidding vehicle is a SUV with a high center of gravity, when it reaches the end of the icy patch or the edge of the road while still sliding sideways, then you will likely have a rollover event.
When driving my 2000 lbs car, its a piece of cake to initiate and recover from skids, but when trying the same thing in my 4000 lbs SUV, its very difficult to keep from overcompensating when trying to straighten out the vehicle as it is skidding.
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