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Old Feb 21, 2013 | 08:25 PM
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I measured it to a Porsche that I'm positive handles a 1000 times better than the F (not a boxster lolz). Don't need a track to tell if the car feels more stable on on and off ramps and what ever twisties are around here.

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Old Feb 21, 2013 | 09:33 PM
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How does the F do in the snow? Today we got about 7-8 inches and about a half inch of ice, my Camry handled it very well but I got stuck on I-70. They eventually shut down the interstate about 2 hours west of here! Will the F be all right with this stuff?
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Old Feb 22, 2013 | 04:12 AM
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All about tires, with good Continentals DSW or Blizzacks you should be good to go.
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Old Feb 22, 2013 | 07:14 AM
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Dedicated snow tires are the way to go for the ISF in snow.
If you can afford a AWD or FWD beater for a few grand, I'd instead go with that and just slap all season tires on it.
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Old Feb 22, 2013 | 08:13 AM
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My 2013 Camry does awesome in the snow, better than my girlfriends ATS... So I will probably just use my Camry in the big snows. I am so ready to go pick it up already! Lol
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Old Feb 24, 2013 | 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Petshark
I measured it to a Porsche that I'm positive handles a 1000 times better than the F (not a boxster lolz). Don't need a track to tell if the car feels more stable on on and off ramps and what ever twisties are around here.
Feel is an unreliable measure of improvement. Better measured handling may not feel good at all, but it's measurably faster. So it feels different, and you think it's faster. Fair enough.
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