Now, I know why you youngsters are so excited ! ! !

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savoo

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HOT DARN.... I took my outback to an unsalted parking lot to get my smow legs. (new car to me with new studded snow tires.)

Parting lot glare ice with a couple of islands. It took off like a tracked vehicle. Braking and off throttle turns predictable understeer. On power turns very controlable oversteer with plenty of forward pull.

Easily read transition from under to over. (could have been better if not for thr throttle lag. Not turbo lag. I don't have a turbo.)

All in all very neutral steering. I practiced my type 1 and type 2 turns all afternoon. A cop finally showed up and asked me what I was doing. I gave him the old man answer that I was just trying to learn how to drive in the snow. He told me to stop doing four wheel drifts and left.

So I had a ball yesterday afternoon and now I don't care if it rains and freezes as long as I got my plastic Jesus. Where was this car 40yrs ago? savoo

 
Subaru + snows = safety & happiness
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"Stop doing four wheel drifts". Nice, glad your having fun. Driving anything but a subaru in snow just feels pointless, welcome to a brave new world.

 
there are many cars that i would like to own but it always ends up as 'i would buy that car if they had an awd version'

 
there are many cars that i would like to own but it always ends up as 'i would buy that car if they had an awd version'
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This.

I loves me some big fat american V8s, but dear god high HP/rwd is terrifying in the winter. Otherwise I'd be looking at a GTO upon gradumacation and employment.

 
or just have a useless boosted RWD toy for the summer and the useful boosted AWD toy for the winter!
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Second that emotion. Except maybe the boosted RWD, need to walk before ru.....swapping.

 
Everyone who rides in my car ends up wanting to get something with as much power as I have and at the very least, AWD. It's so much fun in the snow and so much safer. I feel a ton safer in the snow in my car than I do driving in trucks. My car handles a lot better than 4wd trucks any day of the week. Just wait until you can go out and play in a major snow storm. You will be ''that guy'' who goes up the hill no one else made it up. Be prepared to not be scared of winter driving anymore. Especially with studded snows.

 
BRB, going to a parking lot in the new snow!

Actually, I'm going to wait a bit. The snow is really powdery, which I think is good for those "oh shi- there's a curb there" moments when practicing in a parking lot. Last snow (after a bit of rain) had an underlayer of slush that I didn't realize until pulling into my driveway, but not actually ending up in my driveway
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Would you guys suggest going out now while the snow is relatively shallow, but while its still coming down, or waiting for an inch or so to fall and mid-storm, or wait until its done snowing?

 
just look out for the light poles. they tend to attract drifting cars like a magnet attracts iron.
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Light poles are the best... try to find two and practice holding a drift and switching directions in one motion... it will help you if you ever lose it on the road. Saved me the other day when I hit black ice!

 
I hit up my wife's office lot in Winthrop...off the main road with some light posts for fun. I never realized how easy it was to control my car while still going sideways! I'm not a pro by any means; this was the first time I ever took the car out to the lot after some snow. I was able to keep the car in a drift three times around a light post without any problem at all...granted my car probably didn't like staying first gear at about 5000 rpm for the period of time. All in all, I guess that best way to put it is that the impreza is so incredibly predictable whether I'm driving in summer weather, during a snow storm or having fun in the parking lot!

 
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