My car absolutely _____________ s the cold weather.

e30 on star specs though.....does not dominate winter.

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Garage + Hot leather FTW.

My little Sportster loves the cold air.

'95 F150 5.0 loves cold air. Drops from 12 mpg to 10

Driver has Nordic blood so doesn't mind the cold. Considering Volvo or Saab to complete the package.

My winter beater Impreza runs like E36 M3 in the cold weather, requires long warm up times and needs a few sensors replaced... how ironical.

Driver has Irish blood so requires copious amounts of booze to deal with cold air, yet doesn't drink very much or very often... how moronical.

I drive a 15 yo hybrid. The batteries took a 30% performance cut in the last week.

In reply to irish44j: I can't believe that people up north don't get the winter tires thing.

doesn't care. 1987 e-150. It always starts, always runs. Never a problem. Even below 0. It hates the summer, though. Well, the van doesn't care about heat either. The A/C is pretty bad, so I hate driving it in the heat.

I had a 1998 Jetta that absolutely despised the cold. With blizzaks it was extremely fun in the snow, but temps below 10f could make it quit. Idling below 0f or so the engine would actually cool off and I'd lose heat while it was running!

SWMBO's focus is new so I don't know how it likes the cold. I hope it doens't have a problem.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST

My car is slow to start and first gear is stiff until it warms up. I do only drive it about once a week, and only for 15 minute runs to the grocery store and back. The battery ain't that old either so

E-150 is pretty much a beast. LSD with plenty of weight in the back and some pretty good all-seasons and I've never really had much of a problem with it. Last year, some dimwit came to a complete and full stop on the rather major twisty hill that leads to my subdivision and that necessitated rolling back down the hill and starting over. Other than that, it has conquered everything that winter has thrown at us. My last E-150 did sort of do an unattended slide down out of my driveway and in to the middle of the street one winter, though, so there's that.

Mazda 5 on whatever all-seasons that Mazda saw fit to put on it is okay-ish. Biggest problem I had with that is that the traction control would sense the wheels spinning and then just cut the throttle. But the only way to get going was to spin the wheels. Clicking off the traction control and putting it in 2nd did the job.

RX-7 was stashed away in the storage locker Sunday morning right before the snow hit. If I can get around to polishing it up and putting some of the trim back on, I might take it out for some pictures so I can put it up for sale but otherwise, it's being hidden away from the salt to keep it's totally rust-free status.

Neon is a hoot in this weather. The defroster doesn't seem to want to blow towards the driver side, the washer fluid system is in a box somewhere, the windows rattle around and don't really seal too well, and the heat works really well unless you put the blower on the highest two settings and then it just blows cold air. I took the metal shift knob off for this year -- that was a heck of a shock to grab last year! It also has all seasons and the LSD seems to get the job done. I must have done something weird with MS's warmup map because when it's 70s or better, it starts with no real drama, when it's below 40 it starts fine, but when it's around 50 or 60 degrees out, it just doesn't seem to want to catch without some coaxing.

I was paying attention this morning and I don't think the DD would go into overdrive until I was halfway to work. Fail.

mine doesn't even start to use 4th until I'm halfway there. It takes a solid 20 minutes of driving at a reasonable pace to get it to lock the converter now that it's 10 degrees out. Mileage has gone down by close to 5 mpg...

Took the Mini out on some errands yesterday. It wasn't actual cold, but below average for here this time of year, somewhere in the mid to low 40's. The car likes it ok, but I have to leave the choke on a little longer until she gets warmed up. It is the heat that the car does not handle well. I've never driven the car in the snow, figuring just one application of salt and the whole body shell would return to the earth.

Passat is perfect in the cold. Heated seats, AWD, balanced HVAC. All good.

Suburban: goes. Creaks and groans more. Non heated leather is tough though and the HVAC allows the passengers feet to freeze solid.

Miata. Hiding in the garage until the world thaws back out.

R53 MINI likes the cold because supercharger. Snow on the other hand....NADA. Summer tires

My 9-5 loves the cold, mucho boost, and my butt loves the seat warmers.

In reply to irish44j: They even do that with Blizzaks.

"Never inhabits"

The Escort is miserable in the cold. Mostly because the heater is weak and it was a Florida car so the sun destroyed a lot of the weather stripping.

Great in the snow with good tires though.

"Honey badgers" - the BMW does not seem to give an E36 M3 about the cold (and I wanted to try filling in the blank with something that nobody else had used yet). Other than that it seems to have a couple extra squeaks and rattles, being a convertible. But it seems to run just fine even when it gets well below freezing.

I do need to fix the ABS and traction control though. Those could come in handy if we have another snowstorm.

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Drives beautifully on General snow tires.

Mazda 5 doesn't mind the snow. Better results if you let her warm up a little bit. Traction control off brings better driving feel in snow. Gas Mileage down a hair from 28-29 to 26-27ish.

The Leaf? It doesn't even notice, other than a little "low outside temp" popup that I never really understood. Since it doesn't reciprocate, shift, start, or anything else really, it's totally fine. The heat uses a bit of electricity though, so I use the seat heaters and steering wheel heater exclusively.

When I had my Leaf, it didn't like winter, simply because of the amount of range using the heater sucked up. I used the seat heater and heated wheel too, but when it got down to zero or occassionally below, you HAD to use the heater. That and the cold air are range killers. Driving wise, it was fine.

Now that I live in Atlanta and have a Prius....what winter??