sure eats at components like the sun eats the top, but driving in 2" of snowy slushy snow is way fun. I have 6/32 wear on good all seasons and the trac, stability control lets ya finesses and slide er knowing you are completely safe and she won't break loose. We are pushin 60 inches, would rather you than me, ya get a feel for the fun and feathering the wheel sloooowly. Anyway any one else rip with these things in the winter? I never had snows bet it would drive different.
New tires next year hopefully in a 06 CL!

 

Yup I definitely have! It's always an unusual sight seeing one of these barges go sideways. I really hate how intrusive the stability control is and not having an option to disable it completely. It cut power on me mid drift before which is quite dangerous as the car goes from oversteer to sudden understeer, not to mention kills the fun. The BMWs I had before were much better suited at drift duty lol. Nonetheless still good fun to take out and slide around. Just gotta watch out for those other drivers, i dont trust em

 

Ya just feather the wheel, w/o TC you have more pep off the line and more fun but she still will cut power if ya don't finesse it. Biggest problem if ya where on glare ice the end goes way out and ya hit pavement, ain't gonna happen for me. just slide around every corner as it is snowpacked and its a gas! No worries1

 

Yes, it would be different, safer and more fun with snow tires. Technology like ABS and VSC need traction to work well. Get some X-ice or Blizzaks?

My 95-year old ex-highway engineer cousin and I discussed today how much worse traffic jams are now when it snows than 30+ years ago when people bought real snow tires to satisfy a local ordinance instead of the joke all-season tires with "M&S" on the sidewalls most people today try to get by with in winter.

I drove home today in my 2000 LS400 in about 12 inches of fresh Kansas City snow. My LS with Blizzaks was one of the few passenger cars that was moving - almost everything else that was wasn't hopelessly stuck were 4WD SUV's. I must have driven past hundreds of stuck passenger cars on the way home and it was obvious that none of them had snow tires. I could have gotten home in a fraction of the time if those people had properly equipped their cars.

I've used snow tires on every car I've used in winter - removes most of the drama from winter driving. Doesn't cost that much when amortized and is a big plus when selling a car.