SunnySideUp

Bet you're not so smug now? .... I've never seen so many abandoned German vehicles since my time in 1945 Germany!!

fatscoobfella1

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My X5 has coped perfectly well here in the peaks thank you very much..

zip106

My Porsche has coped admirably, too. So not all German cars are crap

The wife's 5 series on the other hand....

SunnySideUp

Not saying they are crap, at all ...... just it's what I see strewn across the streets - they are the ones which have been abandoned.

boab74

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Seen several BMW's abandoned over the last few days, always gives me a chuckle to see expensive new cars that are useless as i trundle by in my old bucket

alanbell

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sold my E60 535 m Sport and got a Audi quattro
very good in the snow & wet

Trout

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I have only been driving rear wheel drive German cars for last four weeks of extreme snow oop North. I blame the drivers personally!

fatscoobfella1

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My 5 series on the other hand is stuck upto its sills...

It has been out once since a week before christmas,and its still stuck....

Maybe next week eh...

boab74

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Time in 1945 germany, that would make you, very very OLD

SunnySideUp

I am very old ..... you haven't been around here long, have you?

boab74

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only been here a month so not long, you must be a rarity though, a scooby fan in his 80's, im impressed

PaulC72

Some would say the only cars doing well in the snow are the 4x4's - it's just the drivers who are crap.

Petem95

It's surprisingly how quickly you adapt your driving style tho. Ok rear-drive is always tough in the snow - especially for sportier BMW/Mercs with massive rear tyres, but since the snow began I've only been well stuck once and have otherwise managed.. (have been pushed quite a few times however..)

Clearly if these conditions were with us every winter then people would change to snow tyres over the winter like in Germany, Sweden etc - but this is not a normal winter!

fatscoobfella1

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^^^^^^^^^

True...

My 5 series has 275/30/19 on the rear,and there just useless.Absolutely zero grip,it sits wheelspinning on tickover with traction control on..

alanbell

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Ive been driving a mwb transit around in this snow / frost ,
and its better by miles than my old BM ,

what would scooby do

My 300+ BHP CLK did fine thankyee very much

Only thing I miss is a handbrake to get round the tighter bends

what would scooby do

Didn't you know SSU is a war hero ? He got an iron cross

zip106

A hot one - pressed against his back.
sizzzzzzzle.....

f1_fan

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Have to say I was quite surprised that I managed to drive round a stuck BMW 3 series in my CTR which is not a great vehicle in the snow itself. Couldn't resist a friendly wave as I did so either

scoobyvirgin

Just wathced an E36 attempt to go up my road, it's not particularly steep at the bottom, but develops into a hill, dozy sod was giving it beans and sliding backwards, he gave up in the end and let it roll back, only to wheel spin it on the flat and go in the direction of another hill

Godspeed Brakes

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My M3 has been tucked up on the drive , didn't even attempt to take it out , been having too much fun in my type R rally car on gravel tyres to even try

Fabioso

I wonder if it relates to the physical car or the physical profile of the car purchaser

Trout

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I find BMW traction control more of a help than a hinderance in fresh snow.

Matt23

Well i work for BMW and they are good cars, but they dont like the snow. They are all over the place, you have to turn the traction control off just to get moving, but of course once you do that you are asking for trouble. But then in this weather most cars are crap not just german cars.

barnes_2k7

love my bmw in this weather. . . side ways everwhere

500

Me too, I have a 325i E30 on 205 15's, not been stuck once, just tend to drive round corners looking out of the side window