Good point I should have stated that better Read more

$1000 is about the average insurance deductible for most people... Read more

Again you’re missing the point. Read more

Fair points. No people in Florida don’t need snow tires but I would say that any time you have to drive in snow packed conditions (no visible road surface) then snow tires should be mandatory. They might not be needed 99% of the time but that still leaves 1% when you do and its that 1% when you end up in a ditch or in… Read more

Nope think of sipes as smaller tread blocks that grab the snow. If that block is filled with snow then it can’t grab it  Read more

Proper fucked Read more

All very good points. Read more

You have completely missed the point of this post Read more

All good it was actually an editing choice on my part. In my first draft I was more specific about that but it got a bit wordy so I cut it short. Read more

Which is also why I wrote “a degree of stability under steady state throttle”. 99.9999% of all drivers on the road don’t have the understanding or ability to go to throttle while cornering in bad conditions (or any conditions for that matter) Read more

This was done in the overflow lot at Copper Mountain. The roads I took to get there were at least as bad as the lot in not a bit worse in spots
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You’d be surprised...  Read more

Bingo! Read more

No I’m saying that the car was optimized for those tires  Read more

Yeah did that already... Read more

I’m stealing that line Read more

Thats a good idea for a post. I’ll see what I can wrangle up for next year Read more

Lol you’re right Read more

You are right. I totally got that one backwards. Read more

That wasn’t Volvo’s engine it was Fords. The same one that was used in the Gen 2 Focus RS that we couldn’t get here stateside. Read more