NEWBIE WANTS TO BUY A YARIS please advise

[jpmck03]

Originally Posted by SPROCKIT

hey how are these things in the snow with a decent set of snow tires on them?

Managed to get through an entire lake-effect snow covered winter in Fort Drum, NY last winter on (very new) stock all season tires! And believe me, while driving my Yaris throughout the winter I passed many a stranded, flipped, wrecked SUV, truck and car. I'd imagine that snow tires would have been even better, but I did ok on stock rubber!

They're little tanks in the snow.

[SPROCKIT]

its amazing what tires can do, i never ran "snow tires" before and when i discovered that they were $36 each for the geo i gotmyself a set of firestone winterforce tires, i drove straight up my friends driveway last snow storm we had blazing a trail for my other friend driving behind me in his 4wd truck he got stuck but just for a sec

even with an open diff its a monster in the snow, i was hoping these wer the same way

[jonismyname]

had a 99 metro with same tires, took the car some pretty terrible places. skinny tires + lots of ground clearance =win. parked my fiance's awd CRV during the big valentines day storm and got around in the metro.

now have the same tires on the yaris, does well but doesn't have that ground clearance!

OP, you have a PM.

[jdm-yaris]

auto is not slow allready beatin hondas and other toyotas in my yaris just do bolt ons and you will be there wit compition

[frownonfun]

i think it's a question of whether it's slower than the manual... not if it's incapable of ever going any faster. i don't doubt that you've beaten other cars but would you beat a manual tranny yaris with the same mods? that's the more important thing to consider i think. if performance is your top priority anyway.