We had the customary dusting of snow here in Yorkshire overnight which lead to the inevitable road chaos. Mother in law lives up in the Penines (high hills in North of England) so I had to take the X5 (4WD and winter tyres) to deliver groceries. As the wife was shopping, I had a play in the snow covered car park and managed a couple of decent slides which was fun. Straight line performance was good and ABS works fine. On return, I realised the Copen needed a run to keep the battery charged as the poor thing sits outside instead of mollycoddled in the garage. I know it was a bit later so the snow wAs thawing but there was no way I could get it to lose traction ! This thing must run on hidden rails dry, wet, or snow. Great fun and returned home with a smile on my face.
Wow! You must have gotten a different version to the one I bought new, or modified it. My stock Copen with the low end Bridgestone tyres and rather flexible body handled like crap, even on dry pavement. Now it is heavily modified with sport suspension, tyres, and structural reinforcement and has excellent handling.
Mine bumps and rattles and sometimes the steering seems a bit unsettled but the grip has always been very good. In fact on black ice this morning, the Copen took our road, which is a fair old slope, in its stride whereas the wife’s Mazda struggled to get up the hill.
Oh no! Poor Neville! Doesn't he have his own cosy dry little house? He's so small he could disappear in a little drift! ❄️❄️❄️
His dry house is full of the obligatory crap! No room there then! Fortunately, no drifts in the near future (unless I'm feeling racy in the local car park when it's empty, haha!)
about 2 days of snow, from Mon & Tue last week. 1/2 of it has blown off in strong winds this week. And to think on January 20 I had great weather, had a fun drive with the top down on the Copen. Tokyo had its heaviest snow in 4 years & -4C temps last week. On roads higher in the mountains where nobody lives, the roads are simply closed for winter, plowed in April. Looking forward to driving on roads with 1 meter walls of snow. Only tour busses are allowed on the road in the pic I attached here; link with more info: How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style I've never seen snow piled so high
Haha, and there's us getting in a flap about a few centimetres of snow - clearing those roads to leave walls of snow is just something else - thanks for sharing that adatara!
