Small car with wide tyre might be prone to hydroplane...

that's solely on tire's width/contact patch issue, nothing to do with car size

the poll still tie...

Any car can still spin or flip so VSC/ESP should be able to benefit all, small or big cars. But I've driven cars with those features to the limit yet so I don't know how it actually feels/behaves with those features turned on.

This post has been edited by 6UE5T: Apr 1 2013, 07:31 PM

If your car is FWD, it's natural tendency is to understeer since it's more front heavy and the front wheels have to multitask (putting power to the road and steering), so more difficult to oversteer unless you do trail braking while entering corner too fast, or pull the handbrake like you mentioned.
If RWD, then can be easier to oversteer cause you can break loose the rear traction by applying more throttle to overpower the rear grip, hence the term power sliding which what drifters do. The weight distribution is also more even compared to FWD cars (some even able to reach 50/50, such as BMW).

if u view my web at my siggy, u can find the end of my rocket story...
my front is out of control. not my rear...huhu

now im driving kancil, shorter car...so i never feel oversteer in hard cornering.
so i think the new rear tyre setup is not significant to care about.

in my situation, (maybe only me?) last time i put new tyre at rear for my kancil (yes, rear)
but i only manage to buy budgeted tyre which is indonesian falken with suck quality and harder compound.
after a year, i manage to buy a new set of Yokohama tyre which better than current
rear tyre. so how good for me to put that yoko tyre at rear and switch the suck rear tyre to the front? yeah, this is the rare case, maybe only me got this situation...

Putting new tyres front has its pro too. That video only discuss bout losing rear end. Nothing more than that. U just can't conclude porting new tyres at rear is a better practice.
Say, u know your tyres r more worn at rear, u can corner at a lower speed.
What if u need to do emergency brake? I supposed new n better tyres will perform better here.

Front always for me, steering is based on the front.

No control, no grip = No chance.

Plus if your car has only front disk brake you should only change new tires to the front always. Even you have rear brake disk still the front is important because *read bold part*