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Pars · 01-12-2009, 12:13 AM

True. Manual transmission is the best setup for winter (along with snow tires)

I'd be very nervous about doing 55mph on fresh snow, unless the road was plowed. If there's 1 inchs of unplowed snow on the road, the general traffic tends to slow down 40mph while following each other's track.

Last year, I was using my Yaris for an overnight delivery from Sudbury to Toronto. It was quite a trip, from Subury to Parry Sound it was white-out conditions and I was the only one on the road (I guess the trans-canada trucks were sitting it out since it was around 3am). I was using the warning grooves at the side of the highway to tell me if I was still on the road, since it was about 4 inch of fresh unplowed snow and I could only see about 50ft ahead of me. I still managed to keep the speeds up to 60km/hr, but anything more and I'd fly off the road. At Port Sound, my first gas station, after 2hrs of driving, I pulled over for gas and sleep. When I woke up in the parking lot, all the other cars around me were buried in snow while mine looked like it just came out of the wash. I had the heat blasting the entire time while I was passed out. It was a good morning, the snow plow finally were able to keep up with the amount of snow coming down and it stopped snowing. That day, when I got back to Toronto, I went over to my favouret tire shop and got the regular tires replaced with snows.

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01-12-2009, 12:13 AM	#40
Pars Drives: 07 Yaris Liftback Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 418	True. Manual transmission is the best setup for winter (along with snow tires) I'd be very nervous about doing 55mph on fresh snow, unless the road was plowed. If there's 1 inchs of unplowed snow on the road, the general traffic tends to slow down 40mph while following each other's track. Last year, I was using my Yaris for an overnight delivery from Sudbury to Toronto. It was quite a trip, from Subury to Parry Sound it was white-out conditions and I was the only one on the road (I guess the trans-canada trucks were sitting it out since it was around 3am). I was using the warning grooves at the side of the highway to tell me if I was still on the road, since it was about 4 inch of fresh unplowed snow and I could only see about 50ft ahead of me. I still managed to keep the speeds up to 60km/hr, but anything more and I'd fly off the road. At Port Sound, my first gas station, after 2hrs of driving, I pulled over for gas and sleep. When I woke up in the parking lot, all the other cars around me were buried in snow while mine looked like it just came out of the wash. I had the heat blasting the entire time while I was passed out. It was a good morning, the snow plow finally were able to keep up with the amount of snow coming down and it stopped snowing. That day, when I got back to Toronto, I went over to my favouret tire shop and got the regular tires replaced with snows.