When I first got my Tiger and used to drive it in the snow, I always
thought it was pretty good. I remember I bought
a set of Pirelli snow tires when I first got the Tiger and was able to
get around fairly well. I recollect one day
leaving work with about 6 or 8 inches of snow on the ground and heading
home. The first part of the trip was
fine as I was traveling on a state highway that had been plowed.
However, as soon as I turned off the highway to
make the last bit of the trip up and over a pretty steep hill (actually
called a mountain by the locals) I discovered
that the road was unplowed and I was the first car through. I made it
up the hill and down the other side without
spinning a tire, something most local drivers older than myself would
not have attempted. On another occasion,
after I was married and living in another location, I had a similar
experience of having to climb the rather steep
driveway up to our house and did so without incident in the Tiger. My
wife arrived after me on foot and announced
that she had been unable to get our Buick Skylark (with a limited slip
differential) up the driveway and had left
the car at the bottom of the half-mile long driveway and had walked the
rest of the way. The weight distribution
in a Tiger is not bad compared to a lot of contemporary rear wheel drive
vehicles and that helps to some
extent. Just about all the cars that I have owned since the '80's (at
least the ones I drive in the snow) have been
front wheel or all wheel drive because of the advantages they possess in
the snow (which we have a fair amount
of in NY and Maine.) Driving a Tiger in the snow is not something I
would choose to do now, given the availability
of my Subaru Outback or my GTI. I have always worried more about the
other wingnuts on the road during a
snowstorm and their ability to handle their SUV's, etc. which they seem
to think are capable of suspending the
laws of physics.
Tod, in Maine, where it's snowing again.
B382002384LRXFE
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