RWD is not too bad, providing you are properly equipped. They have RWD cars in Sweden, they just make sure they've got winter tyres on and are appropriately ballasted. Over here I suppose you could fit snow socks since we only tend to get a few days of snow per year, they'd probably see you through but winter rubber would be a better bet.

460lb/ft + RWD+ Snow....what could possibly go wrong?

Can't possibly think :think:

RWD is not too bad, providing you are properly equipped. They have RWD cars in Sweden, they just make sure they've got winter tyres on and are appropriately ballasted. Over here I suppose you could fit snow socks since we only tend to get a few days of snow per year, they'd probably see you through but winter rubber would be a better bet.

I run winters on the octy and have done for years. Currently it's a set of Nokian WR A3, which work well on the mainly dry but occasional snow road conditions we get in the UK. Snow socks are useless compared to them.

If I did go for such a car, a set of winter wheels and tyres would be part of the negotiations.

No way on earth I'd do RWD without it, as so many cars have such wide, low profile tyres with no give.

Hopefully it'd also mean I could come down from 17" to 16" for winter.

Weighting, I was thinking a big old bag of sand in the boot over the rear axle in the boot for the winter

Edited 26 June, 201213 yr by cheezemonkhai

I've used Winter tyres for the last 4 years and it is definitely not going to change now!!