Very heavy snow in Hampshire

[DJW svx]

Well the SVX certainly proved itself to be an outstanding car in very heavy snow tonight as we drove back from a job in Worthing, with care it just wafts past cars going nowhere on hills and slipping it into D 1 to descend hills provided you don't touch the brakes is wonderfull in fact I took it out again to get some shopping essentials this evening and where I live has about 5 steep hills and downward slopes and I was able to weave through the abandoned cars with such ease.

[scoobymal]

Plenty snow here in Durham,I think my SVX is as good if not better than my Audi A5 3.0 TDI Quattro (maybe because the tyres are not as wide)

[svxistentialist]

I don't have my one on the roads at present. When I did it was excellent at traveling up hills in the Dublin mountains even on sheet ice.

At the time I felt it was the gearbox electronics that were doing the smart apportioning of the torque and grip. The usual caution and care is needed going down hill, particularly. Once a certain amount of momentum is gathered [if grip is lost] then the Laws of Physics come back with a crunch.

[DJW svx]

From my days when I used to do a bit of messing about at AWDC events I learnt that touching the brakes on downhill descents resulted in a loss of control. By keeping the car in Manu I'm able to adapt quite well to conditions so putting it in 1 to go downhill seems to control the speed and keep it low enough not to build any momentum. It does put a smile on my face to see people wondering how a car that looks like the SVX just wafts effortlessly past them when they are frantically spinning their wheels to get grip.

[b3lha]

The worst cars on snow seem to be Mercs. I've seen literally dozens of them spinning their wheels and going nowhere. I guess it's a combination of too much inertia, rear wheel drive, fat tyres, and open diffs.

In my Legacy I can't even tell that there is snow and ice on the road, it just drives like normal. Most of the time I dislike driving the Legacy, but in the present conditions, I'm loving every minute of it.

[DJW svx]

Its funny you should mention Mercs because apparently the sneaky little boys in blue stuffed their unmarked Merc estate into the back of a Subaru the other day on the A27.