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the award for worst snow/ice car is?

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  • nickyhutch
    nickyhutch Posts: 7,596 Forumite
    My lovely P reg Toyota Paseo has been a STAR this last week or 2. I'm the only one who's got to work every day, and not had to be dug off the car park. Used my 03 Xsara today and although not as good, I only had a couple of slips and no slides.
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  • JonathanA
    JonathanA Posts: 464 Forumite
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    BMW - useless in the snow.

    Worst driver - bloke I saw on the M5 this morning - or almost saw, driving a Honda Civic with iced up rear and rear side windows, and a misted up drivers window that had only had about 5 square inches of ice scraped from it, but he still managed to find time to light his fag...
  • Shimrod
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    I'd vote for any 4x4 making drivers over-confident such that they end up driving 2 inches off the car in front. When they hit the brakes they're going to skid just like the rest of us.
  • neilmcl
    neilmcl Posts: 19,460 Forumite
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    edited 8 January 2010 at 9:51PM
    Shimrod wrote: »
    I'd vote for any 4x4 making drivers over-confident such that they end up driving 2 inches off the car in front. When they hit the brakes they're going to skid just like the rest of us.
    I'd have to agree after a 4x4 slid into my parked BMW just before Xmas. "I was on the brakes all the way but couldn't stop" - what did you expect :rolleyes:
  • Yes, my BMW is absolutely bobbins in the snow. Wide tyres and rear wheel drive means I cant get traction at all, even the slightest slope is completely out of the question. Rubbish.

    I do enjoy the rear wheel drive the rest of the year though.
  • raebhoop
    raebhoop Posts: 1,234 Forumite
    gsmmad wrote: »
    BMW BMW BMW for worst

    I use to have a gold mk5 1.4 TSI, brilliant car in snow. Has snow mode which is brilliant, just press that and sorted(most of the time). I never got stuck in snow with this last year in france. I have a BMW and i get stuck all the time, i got stuck on a straight road so many times. I cant believe the car cannot handle a straight road!


    I've got 'snow mode' in my 12 year old Discovery...it's called me...
    Brought up driving in the winters of the sixties when a heater was an extra and sensible driving on ice was more common.
  • My little rwd Agila with snow tyres is brilliant, im very impressed. My next doors neighbours Vectra is struggling to get out even when being pulled by a van. Its the HGV's near me that need shooting, flying past at over 50mph, 1 jacknifed yesterday but they still dont learn.
  • neilmcl
    neilmcl Posts: 19,460 Forumite
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    My little rwd Agila with snow tyres is brilliant, im very impressed. My next doors neighbours Vectra is struggling to get out even when being pulled by a van. Its the HGV's near me that need shooting, flying past at over 50mph, 1 jacknifed yesterday but they still dont learn.
    You not watched Ice Road Truckers then? ;)
  • hothothot_3
    hothothot_3 Posts: 4,646 Forumite
    thats strange, Ive also noticed BMWs mostly stuck - could be because they are heavier?
  • amcluesent
    amcluesent Posts: 9,425 Forumite
    edited 8 January 2010 at 10:11PM
    My Nissan 200sx is being a bit naughty in the snow. 200HP, turbo, RWD, no traction-control...

    Here she is in better weather!

    sx200.jpg
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