what do you drive in the winter

Jeffblue

i'll take a few months of winter over drought and hurricanes.

i told my dad i plan on driving my Z in winter with winter tires and he is under the assumption that RWD cars, no matter what, can't drive in snow. the only difference between RWD/FWD/AWD car in snow is during accelleration, and usually when you are ******** your pants the most in winter is if you need to stop, and all 3 of those (unless you have some older car) have 4 wheel anti lock brakes. So if i've got blizaaks on my car, and he's got goodyear eagle all seasons, my car should be able to stop and turn better than his, no?

in snow, I think RWD+a good set of now tires and a catious driver is definitely better than AWD+all seasons+a driver who relies on their AWD to keep them safe and still drives like theres no snow on the ground. anyone else agree?

rha600

We have hurricanes every 5 years or so. You have winter every year.

When I was living in PA (around Ft Washington in the foot hills) I drove the honda when it snowed. But I agree 1000%, once you're moving, it doesn't matter what wheels are driving the car, unless you're one of those idiots that likes doing 60mph on the ice. A FWD car isn't going to stop any better than a RWD car.

Now if it's a winter like you all had last year with 30+ inches of snow on the ground...yeah, now something 4WD and tall is the only thing going to help.

Jeffblue

i completely agree

but seriously... no one likes driving in a snow storm, just like no one likes driving in traffic. If you can, you stay where you are. Thats why i picked a RWD sports car with a manual transmission even though i live in the north east. I will occasionally get stuck in the snow, and get stuck in traffic, but i'm not going to pick my car that i drive all year based on that.

rha600

exactly. you have to deal with the snow maybe 12 days out of the year, and DEEP snow maybe 5... And unless you're up in the mountains that is only every 3 or 4 years. So the other 360 days of the year you want something fun to drive.



besides, if you have the sports car it's a great excise for not making it into work on those bad snow days.