To drive the 370z in the winter or not

2011 Nismo#91

Invest in a set of winter tires and if you can rims too. The key to winter driving from my 15 years of driving RWD cars in NJ winters is be careful when pressing the gas and use a higher gear then you would normally to keep torque low avoiding slippage. You do not want to give it gas in a turn in snow you will likely spin the tail out.

Gently accelerating in the straights is fine if you go too much power your rear end will try to over take your front end and you will start to fish tail. This wont happen in a FWD because your front wheels are pulling your rear wheels along for the ride.

The only bad thing about our car that you can't control is the tire width, wide tires don't preform as well as narrow tires in deeper snow.

In all my driving RWD I only had 1 accident my fault snow related. And that was when I was 17 and didn't know **** about driving.