Originally posted by acammer:
Originally posted by todras:
No shiz! Worst car in the snow? My buddy has pics of him driving his CSVT through 3 foot drifts with bald KDW's?! I should see if I can get them scanned. I've driven a lot of cars in the winter and a FWD Contour is among the best if not THE best next to a Taurus. Someone needs driving school.



Driving school my nuts. Perhaps its the allseasons, but I've driven plenty of other cars, without snowtires, that were much better than the SVT in the snow. I had two old (circa 1990) Buick Century's that would go anywhere on crappy old tires, and were literally unstopable with snow tires. The GrandAm I had wasn't nearly as good as those two cars, but it was better than the SVT. I'll say this for the GA though, it was tail happy, the SVT is pretty predictible in comparison. I guess I'm thinking more of staight line acceleration and braking capablities. Again, maybe its the tires, maybe its the low gearing. But there is no way its the BEST in the snow.


The contour is great in the snow; its the shoes that are on it...if you have High Performance Summer Tires, no [censored] it sucks in the snow...

Ryan Trollin!