Originally Posted By: bbhero
Well that Subaru did great running into ditches and getting back out of them and back onto dry pavement. These ditches were about a foot to a foot and a half deep. It was impressive.
Now mind you when I was 5 yrs old we had a snowstorm of 18 inches in one storm. Plus several other storms that winter. We had a season total of 42 inches. A lot for SE Va. And yes, it helped keep my dad from getting stuck and potentially busted for drunk driving.
In thinking about this now... amazes me how he never got a drunk driving ticket. He did it all the time. Try this in for size... driving across a bridge covered in ice, wind blowing 35-40 mph, he's been drinking, and we are in a Pinto. Yes, a Pinto. I thought for sure I wasn't going to make it out of that. It's a funny story now. A perfect storm of all the worst things coming together in perfect synchronization to form a amazingly bad circumstance. Again, it is funny now. But it sure wasn't at the time because as a 12 yr old boy knowing what a Pinto was capable of.
Problem with today's Subarus is that they became victim of their own success. Here in CO they are first in the ditch, fallowing big trucks and JEEPs'.
It is the drivers who think that because they have Subaru, or truck, or JEEP when foot of snow hits, they are unstoppable, regardless of tires they have.
I have a coworker that had issue climbing this 8% incline to work. It is three lane busy road that it is notorious in winter. You really need good winter tires to go up in FWD or RWD. Going down it is really tricky even with winter tires sometimes. Anyway, she bought Subaru last year because she is tired of getting "stuck." i said fine, but when you get stuck, who cares. What about going down? Her answer was: what that has to do with my issues? And of course, last winter we had El Nino season, above average snowfall. She ends up running red light bcs. she could not stop. Luckily it was 11pm in the evening so she did not hit anyone. It was kind of rude awakening for her that even Subaru's AWD is as good as tires are.