[Spridgets] Snow in Britain

[David Lieb]

> I have come to adore my wife's Subaru Tribeca in the snow.


Tribeca? Isn't that the car that frightened Richard Hammond's kids???

Up by Ron the people seem to handle the snow better than here. By me it is 
similar to what ED reports. When it snows, the municipal vehicles are out 
there salting and scraping until they have dug great chunks out of the road 
surface (then they blame the road condition on the "freeze/thaw cycle"). I 
agree that the 4wd people seem to think that, since they launch better than 
2wd, they MUST be able to stop better, too. Likewise, they do not realize 
that a vehicle that handles lousy on a dry road REALLY handles horribly in 
adverse traction conditions. I drive a 2002 VW GTi VR6 as a daily driver. 
Clutch, handbrake, snow tires and a car that goes where you point it . . . A 
great snow car for the local conditions IMHO. Every year we get to watch 
people learn how to drive in the snow all over again.

Oh yes, as Tom Bodett once said, "4WD means that when YOU get stuck, NO ONE 
is going to 'happen by' and help you out."
David Lieb