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Well, I must say that I did not have fun. Now I know most of you are saying "That damn pesomistic magicmike mother f'er" lol Well those of you who know me anyway lol. But on a serious note let me elaborate. I had my g/f with me so thats why I couldn't get too crazy, she was scared that the car would flip over. I was in an empty lot with her and it was more like an inch of slush than it was snow. I was screwing around and found that it was very hard to actually get the car out of control. I have never had an AWD car so the sensation was new to me. I was pretty awesome, going around a corner I would mash the gas pedal and the back end would slide out like a foot and then catch and the car would rocket forward. It was amazing, it felt like I couldn't lose trackion. Mind you I'm running my crappy cooper cobra's but they are brand new. Well just thought I'd share. The next morning the sun was out and all the snow had already melted. I cant wait until we get at leaste a foot of snow, then the g/f will have to stay home and I can do some real playing around.

I love driving my car in the snow but my family always wants to borrow it to get around

I found that my SS with the rear LSD was extremely drift happy, like RWD but much easier to control in snow. My one legger wagon on the other hand refuses to wag its tail at all even in snow...

I took one of my ex-girlfriends out through a hard snow-packed dirt road through the woods once pulling rally slides around the corners (FWD, remember) and at the end she said she was scared as hell, but asked me if I could do it again. She now has a 5MT WRX. Coincidence?

Steve

evolutionmovement wrote:Coincidence?

...I think not!

Stinking chemicals, man. If it weren't for the fact that I felt little chemistry, I would have kept her. At least I passed on the Subaru bug (and thankfully no other bugs).

Steve

I love drifting in parking lots. My favorite is cranking the wheel then mashing it and before you know it your driving sideways. Best feeling ever.

As pissed as I am with the construction going on in my neighborhood, it has made a very entertaining 90° dirt corner farther down the street. There have been a couple days where the main entrance into the neighborhood has been blocked off and that corner was my only way in/out, and more than once I've double-clutched into 1st and smashed the gas at the apex so I come out all sideways

Almost lost it though, came close to a big mound of dirt so I try to keep my ego in check now...

Mike, maybe you just need to lay in the gas earlier, since you have an auto. If you are in a lot where you can't hit anything, just drive like you wanted to get in a wreck

My first snow drive, too ! My gf said I wouldn't be able to get out of her driveway over the plow berm, I said F that and ran right over it!

I didn't even bother to shovel my driveway this weekend, near 6" of heavy snow., my ground-hugging BMW would have required a full shovel-out. Last year I couldn't get my car home for 3 days because my street was 6" of frozen, rutted slush, the Subaru will certainly change that scenario.

I'm stoked !

Damn abnormal jetstream! Curses! I want to play in the snow, I guess I'll enjoy 45 and sunny for another week before hell freezes over.

It needs to snow in SACRAMENTO!!! (like that will ever happen. )

Ya but you can drive the whole, big 90 minutes to Lake Tahoe, only one of the biggest winter wonderlands in the US! Geez.

LOL, true, but it is more like 120 minutes

Maybe if you drive like my Mom.

I've done that drive on few different occasions and unless the traffic was bad I could make it in 90 minutes.

WOW. You guys have me wanting to drive in snow, wishing that it was already snowing. and I live in cleveland.

Wow, I've never driven up that hill much faster than 80 or 85 and I'm out by Roseville, so going up 80 I'm closer than sacramento. Its always taken me about 2 hours. It might take a little longer now as well, since the CHP have been on the roads like mad the last few months.

Ya, my grandpa lived in Roseville after living in Tahoe City for most of my life. I grew up going to Tahoe all the time. My mom even lived in Stateline for most of the 90's. My Aunt and Uncle live on 44th and J st. in Sac-town.

I'm saying 90 minutes once on freeway though, not from their house. Lets just say I've occasionally gone faster (but not too much) then the speed you mentioned...

Yes! Finally! snow beautiful snow.
It is all that I imagined it to be.
After a lifetime of FWD cars it feels weird in the snow, not losing control at the drop of a hat.

How many times have you actually needed chains on the AWD subis?

One time - we stopped on a hill with a really flat gradient-only ever so slightly angled- the car was slowly sliding over the ice.
(on the way up to a ski field )