When it happend to me, I was avoiding a head-on collision because some idiot thought it would be better to drive down the middle of a 2 lane road. My rear wheel caught a ridge of snow at the side of the road, causing the back end to slide out. Fortunatly I ended up in the opposite ditch that was empty, and not on the one to my right which was full of trees.

I realize that Andy was talking about the confusion of oversteer and understeer, I was more making the comment that oversteer can happend in a FWD car.

My Cars 1999 Silver Frost SVT - 80,000km #2603/2760 Aug. 10, 1999. 1996 Mercury Mystique LS V6 MTX - retired @ 323,151km. 1995 Ford Contour V6 MTX-sold @ 214,000km