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Old 01-14-12, 05:36 PM
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Winter is upon us again, and so is the snow (for most of us at least). I'm sure I'm not the only one that likes to play in snow this time of the year so I thought it would be cool to start a thread just for that purpose. Post a pic or video of your IS doing doughnuts.



Normally we get more snow in OH but weather is kinda weird this year. Finally got some snow that stuck today so I decided to go out and play. This is my first winter with my IS, prior to this I made it through 4 winters with a Honda S2000. Today I got to find out what AWD was capable of in the snow and I was pleased
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Nice, that looks like tons of fun.. hahaa. I heard IS's are terrible in the snow though..but I guess the AWD is handling nicely..
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I have to admit it handles better than the S2000 with or without snow.
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handles better than an s2000 without snow?!
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Feels like it to me when I'm flying up on ramps
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Lucky Looks like a lot of fun......
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Originally Posted by DubbStep
Lucky Looks like a lot of fun......
u guys don't have any snow in DC?
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look like you have the good time playing in snow Man I just miss that snow because I been out the country for two weeks just got back this Sunday, now it time for me to install the 2011 headlights love your car, hope we can meet in the spring.
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Originally Posted by edgeucated
handles better than an s2000 without snow?!
I would have to disagree with that one. I also used to have one -
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Originally Posted by ohiois350
look like you have the good time playing in snow Man I just miss that snow because I been out the country for two weeks just got back this Sunday, now it time for me to install the 2011 headlights love your car, hope we can meet in the spring.
Awesome can't wait to see the results. Hit me up
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Originally Posted by JEFFOS69
I would have to disagree with that one. I also used to have one -
Nice ap1. I had stock suspension in mine. Don't know if you changed urs or not but that's just my opinion. The is Awd hugs the road much better to me. I had my s2k for 4 and a half years living in Dallas Louisiana Pennsylvania and Ohio so i drove in all kinds of weather.
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How does AWD affect doing donuts in the snow? I used to live in Wisconsin and have done TONS of donuts in FWD and RWD cars, but never AWD.
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Looks like fun, wish we had snow like that in CA
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Nice doughnuts. I killed a quarter tank in the GS the other day doing the same thing. Later that night ended up in someone's yard :/
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Originally Posted by DKnight350
How does AWD affect doing donuts in the snow? I used to live in Wisconsin and have done TONS of donuts in FWD and RWD cars, but never AWD.
great control, I don't know how you can do a full doughnut in fwd maybe half? Which I always was only capable of doing half with FWD unless I was going in reverse. With RWD I could do doughnuts all day but figure 8s were harder to pull off. This is my first AWD car and I'm very satisfied with my purchase.

Originally Posted by KillaIS250
Looks like fun, wish we had snow like that in CA
Yes it was fun. For a minute I felt like Jeremy Clarkson

Originally Posted by 00LexusGS3
Nice doughnuts. I killed a quarter tank in the GS the other day doing the same thing. Later that night ended up in someone's yard :/
Oh man sorry to hear that hope it was not as serious as it sounds. I only play in empty parking lots. Even though I know my car can handle the snow I still drive at a moderate speed just to be safe and keep my distance from others. Anytime I see anyone getting close to me I softly hit my brake lights so they know to stay away. Nothing annoys me more when people are riding my a** I keep enough distance to see the tires on the car in front of me in case anyone hits me from behind I wont hit the person in front of me



Makes me sad no one else has done any parking lot drifting =( lol


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