Thread 28505823

What do you drive in the winter?

Winter car has to be RWD or possibly AWD. Otherwise it's just no fun.

AWD Matrix with winter tires.

>>28505823 (OP)
miata on summer tires with the top down

>>28505823 (OP)
Newer trugg since being able pop it in 4wd on the fly is nice

>>28505823 (OP)
4wd 4runner

>>28506209
Same

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>28505823 (OP)
fwd camry, never had issues up here in maine

my winter car is my summer car with paddle tires on the back.

>>28505823 (OP)
Just a Corolla. It's fine with good studded winter tires if the snow's not too deep.
If you can hear the snow touching the bottom of the car and the traction control light blinks like crazy, you might want to slow the fuck down before the traction control burns out the brakes or something worse happens.

*laughs in floridian*

>>28506288
>laughs in Floridi-ACK!

>>28506175
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>>28506276
>if the snow's not too deep.
>If you can hear the snow touching the bottom of the car
This is why I had to go with a 4x4 truck. Snow falls fast and deep where I am, pic related is the street outside my house after a late-season storm that only lasted like 8 hours. I haven't been in this house for full-blown real winter yet but the neighbors tell me that multiple feet can pile up pretty quick here and the city doesn't plow it, so every household has at least one high-clearance 4x4 because it's the only way out until everybody gets their snowblowers out and clears it themselves.

Whatever runs at the moment and has winter tires

>>28506156
I hate you califaggot, the winters here are miserable :(

>>28505823 (OP)
4wd F1fiddy, Ranger with the 2.3 in the summer.

>>28506299
Yeah, probably a good idea. Around here the snow usually gets plowed quickly enough, but the temperature can vary between freezing and non-freezing for like half the year, so at least some of the roads are guaranteed to be covered in ice on some days.
Studded tires help a lot, though even with them the ~120 hp hybrid FWD Corolla almost feels overpowered for the amount of traction available.
Maybe it's the electric motor and its instant torque---I hear some EVs are nearly impossible to drive in winter without the traction control going crazy all the time because the torque is so high that it goes into wheelspin instantly if the pedal is pressed a bit too hard.

>>28506311
texas, ackshually

literally just get top tier winter tires and you’re good

Quattro chads can’t stop winning

>>28505823 (OP)
My car.

>>28506347
you drive a stock photo from a google image search in the winter?

>>28505823 (OP)
i've never seen a chrysler crossfire being piloted by anything but a 65+ year old white haired old man.

>>28506333
We've got the same erratic freezing problem here as well. A lot of people run studs but the problem is that you're only allowed to use them between Nov and March and we can get ice anywhere between mid-Oct and mid-May. It's also really hard to get a tire shop appointment around the beginning and end of that season, though I could solve that by getting a second set of wheels and just changing them myself. I'm thinking of getting good studless winters instead so I can run them for the full season.

>>28506366
>I'm thinking of getting good studless winters instead so I can run them for the full season.
That can work, but studless winters made for seriously cold weather may soften and wear out very quickly on hot summer roads, and will probably perform worse than summer tires on wet surfaces.
There's been some improvement in the rubber compounds over the years, but I don't think there is a material that can perform the same in summer heatwaves and ass-freezing winter.

>>28505823 (OP)
>carstuckgirls
>cars tuck girls
lol, wat?

>>28506156
It rains during the winter dumbass

>>28506477
And? It rains in the summer too. My summer tires are fine in the rain, they're not slicks.

>>28505823 (OP)
Pretty much anything. I kind of relate to the chick in this pic, in the sense that I enjoy having the heat way up in the cabin when touring parks in winter. Not that I would ever dress that light in the legs, outdoors, no matter the season.

Crossfire was so much prettier than the clk. I will never understand why we have every european car but no American cars except shitrams shiterados and F-2shitties, 300Cs and rustangs. I want a fucking CTS-V or a Crown Vic

>>28506582
Actually no I want a Mark IV Continental ragtop

>>28505823 (OP)


You can get practically anything through snow if your rubbers are good; and get what can through even surer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7xROFzVFWU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTxxiYcDvQU

What is the ideal car for the man who hates winter, hates snow, hates ice, hates hail, hates cold climates, and wants a car that only works in hot and warm climates?

>>28506839
Classic Italian car.

>>28506840
And which classic Italian car would fit what I'm looking for?

And a city that's perfectly warm year-round and where you never have to worry about snow.

M340i xdrive

>>28506376
Oh yeah, I just meant from late Oct - late Apr, not the whole year. I'll switch back to my regular ATs when the weather warms up. I've been wanting aftermarket wheels for ages anyway so I'd get those, put my current tires on them, and put the winters on the stock ones.

>>28505823 (OP)
4x4 with a locking diff is pretty glorious. FWD with studded tires works but it's nowhere near as fun or capable.

>>28506833
kwab

>>28505823 (OP)
last winter i drove an e34 520i touring
i don't have that car anymore so i don't know what i'll be driving next winter
probably my e39 if i still have it at that point

>>28505823 (OP)
Nissan Frontier. It's got 4WD and all season tires. It does way better in than snow than I would have guessed. It's often great in RWD.