It's that time again.

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There was a thread I used to bring up on the old forums, so I need to start a new one.

Winter is coming. The air is cool. The Duratec makes good power, the brakes cool down quickly, but the tires still stick. Go drive your car.

Forget about the mod list: you've got all winter to do that stuff. Forget the new radio, the new swaybar, the new tires - just drive. Find some twisty roads, fill up on gas, and spend a whole afternoon carving them up.

Talking about cars is fun and working on cars is fun, but the whole point is to drive them. Any Contour is fun to drive, even a bone-stock Zetec auto on 14" all-seasons.

Keep the revs up, the windows down, and be safe. There's a lot of road out there; how much are you missing out on?

 

[elraido]

Good lord man, deer are every where now, my car is leaking like 3 quarts of oil every 3000 miles, I have a bad wheel bearing, and I drive 120 miles a day...isn't that enough for you? IF I didn't have those problems I would have been doing it today---if it wasn't snowing as well.

 

[mystiquevltwin]

this year ill truely be missing all of this. being at school with no car is killing me but the times that i do go home and drive it...i appriciate it even more

GO DRIVE!

 

[rouar]

Moving to Boston ruined weekday driving. I cannot enjoy a quick drive after work because rush hour here is beyond insane and lasts well past 7:30. Every weekend, however, I've been driving ~300 miles just going places, usually west toward my hometown.

 

[RawBurt]

I have a road about 10 minutes from my house thats about 25 miles of twisties. Whenever I get bored I like to push the limits. My car handles like a dream.

 

[jtour]

Any Contour is fun to drive, even a bone-stock Zetec auto on 14" all-seasons.

SO true!!!! Gotta love the contour!

 

[IRingTwyce]

Good lord man, deer are every where now,

No shiz man. I hit one last week. :nonono: Damn thing hit me right on the driver's side A-pillar. I got a face-full of beady black deer eyes staring at me right before she hit. It was rather creepy. Like she was trying to hit ME, and not the car!

**EDIT** Oh, and I want a road like that near my house.

 

[dbateman]

That road looks just like a stretch that's on my way to/from work. Which is precisely why I traded my Explorer in for the Contour.

 

[96RedSE5Sp]

Nothing but twisty rural roads around here. If anyone's ever driven it, Route 80 in Otsego County between my house and Cooperstown alone is enough to justify having a Contour. I wish I had a picture.

 

[Frosty]

Now that it's not raining here, I will be doing the same tonite. I plan on putting the winter wheels on the SE soon, so I will go to my favorite spot and drive her hard and then switch to the SVT, because she gets prepped for winter storage very soon.