I need one. My Buick is up to 90K miles and might not make it to 200K, you never know. I will be looking for another car in a few years. I would like to get a hot rod, Mustang, Camaro, Challenger. Except all of those are terrible snow cars. They cannot pull up three mile hill, they are totally squirrely after the first flake hits the asphalt. They are so bad the people laugh if you turn up driving one at a ski resort.
A good snow car has 50 50 weight distribution, same weight on both the front and back wheels. And four wheel drive. And limited slip differentials fore and aft. And a manual transmission so you can rock the car back and forth between 1st gear and reverse gear to get unstuck. And door handles big enough to get all four fingers around them, even wearing gloves to tug open a frozen door. Good strong defrosters, fore and aft. No turned up rear edge of the hood that makes a snow dam around the wipers. Windshield washer container big enough to take a whole gallon of windshield washer fluid. Good snow tires. Good solid way to mount the ski rack. Battery mounted under the hood in case you need to jump start it, or jump start a friend. And an outside thermometer so we can tell if that dark spot up ahead is black ice or just a puddle.
You would think a good sporty car that was good in winter would sell.
No comments:
Post a Comment