How's your GS in snow? (merged threads)
Driver School Candidate
Joined: Sep 2009
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From: IN
I just got my GS300 and I'm fairly worried about the upcoming winter. I'm a little older than you though and have had fair amount of experience. But I'll tell you what, my first car was this older RWD V8 T-Bird. Holy crap that thing sucked in the winter here. Eventually got in a wreck when relatively SAFELY driving it. It just slid and slid and BOOM! Listen to people FWD and AWD till you have lots of experience and/or money. Someone said Subi, that'd be cool for your age 2.5RS. GL.
Pole Position
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: Oklahoma
ive driven it in the ice on summer tires and while you had to go slow as hell the main difference between that and my friends RWD tahoe with winter tires was that i could tell when the GS was about to slip and if for some reason it did it was really managable whereas in the tahoe all of a sudden u where sliding and there was nothing that you could do about it
i'd have to agree with everyone on here. I'm 20 and living up in state college, pa we saw a fair amount of snow and from my experience last year, the gs can be be a handful to drive in snow if you don't have a good set of snow tires. listen to the guys on here and start with a subi or a fwd car. and most importantly respect mother nature when driving in any inclement weather. she'll bite you in the *** real quick without any hesitation.
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The old IS300 is notorious for being a horrible car for driving in the snow, I personally witnessed a friend wipe out in a IS300 during a simple turn other cars were handling fine and there was a long term test of a IS in a car mag that was totaled because it slid around in snow. The reviewers said it was horrible in the snow while other cars seemed to be doing fine. I drove my GS in the snow twice and it was decent, not much sliding and seemed to do pretty good but the snow was fresh and not icy. I had new all season high performance tires on it though which I am sure helped. I would stay away from the GS300 and rwd for a daily driver in NJ winters. I would get a fwd car like an Accord(my 96 Accord was excellent in the snow) or a awd car and wait to get a rwd GS or rwd car until you either move to an area that does not get much snow or can drive a different fwd or awd vehicle in the snow and keep the GS parked. Changing out to winter tires in a rwd car is expensive and a PITA and you have to store the different set of tires which can pose problems.
Pole Position
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 303
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From: Birmingham UK
would not recommend a GS300 in the snow,espically if your young and inexperienced
I find it a handful and a touch scary,have even caused some damage while driving it in the snow and skidding on ice where i had no control over what was going on....
I have driven 290bhp R33 GTS-T's in the snow so have had car's with more power and not even they where that hard to control
Get something cheap and fwd,and learn how to drive on the road,not how to drive to get your license,only then should you start to go up the scale car wise...
I find it a handful and a touch scary,have even caused some damage while driving it in the snow and skidding on ice where i had no control over what was going on....
I have driven 290bhp R33 GTS-T's in the snow so have had car's with more power and not even they where that hard to control
Get something cheap and fwd,and learn how to drive on the road,not how to drive to get your license,only then should you start to go up the scale car wise...
Damn car sucks in the snow; well at least when I had my summer tires on. I have winter tires sitting in the garage now but it's too early to mount them. I'm now considering getting a beater car with fwd or perhaps awd.
Driver School Candidate
Joined: Feb 2006
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From: oh
Ive got a hour commute to work, and im required by my job to come in regardless of weather conditions. I put Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires on my 98' and it was pretty managable even in really bad conditions, but ive got a little experiance in snow though. If you do end up getting it there's DEFINATELY a big difference with some dedicated snow tires, just dont run snow tires in the summer to keep them in good shape
Hope this helps
Hope this helps
No man dont do it!!! its going to be big mistake. Go get you a honda civic or something and have fun with it tear that **** up until you experience out the most of driving lolz.. Yea but seriously buy something cheap for your first car
