Usually you try to orient your vehicle with the front armor towards the enemy, which makes it necessary to drive backwards when you need to pull back. So the standard procedure would be:
- popping smoke
- orienting the front armor towards enemy
- driving backwards out of the danger zone
Currently the wheeled APC/AFV's are very slow while driving backwards:
Marid 13 kph
Gorgon 14 kph
Marshall 15 kph
This makes the mentioned procedure less effective and its possibly better to make a u-turn to get away fast enough. I dont think that the reallife counterparts of those vehicles are that slow. In my opinion their speed should be increased to match at least the tracked vehicles in the game with a backward driving speed of 21-31 kph.