Come on, Stig quotes are hardly bashing to a racerboi.
As for Steve trying to gallantly come to Gordon's rescue,
you both still totally miss the point.
I was not commenting on which car is better -
I am commenting on the driving conditions. " ...in 2 inches of snow, street driving is perfection." I am actually agreeing with you Gordon. You bashed the vehicle choice, but I had said "on roads that are 6" of solid ice is hella fun."
We are talking about the roads, not the car. Reading comprehension kids. Try it.
Sure, a Miata is fun on ice with 2" of snow. But so is hooning a 19' truck sideways, a bit of the Swedish flick and a roaring V8 while you control your curve by how you modulate the throttle more than your steering wheel
is perfection also. Every truck is a drift car, every rwd is really, when you are on ice. #icekhana
all the time. It is "hella fun."
Or do you not think so? What is not fun about that?
The choice of car isn't the topic, and neither are your straw man arguments. (Those is typical also. Huh.)
Trying to argue that you might know more than me about driving on snow, with your very limited time spend ice racing and comparing it to an Alaskan? It just puts into question your total believe-ability. Not only have you missed the topic but then here comes Steve from California for the breathless support of you. Almost romantic. I drove an average of 120 miles a day in the winter for a while. Every sort of condition from big roads to small steep back ones needing plowing. Every sort of car, every sort of truck. FWD to AWD to RWD, from a Festiva to a uHaul, '77 T/A to most every Subaru (including a Justy). Small trucks to big. Good tires, bad tires. Nasty melt season to -40 blasts through mountain passes to full white out to lake driving. There is not really a class of vehicle, or a quality of tire I have not driven on ice or snow with. A truck is a lot of fun. Plain and simple. Anything is fun really. That was Gordon's point. 2" is driving perfection.
Though, if you knew your sod on it, most Alaskans put sand in their truck over the rear axle and toward the rear to get a better bias.