Like most every other comment, I will say carbs.

well, a 100 miles on a sled is a lot. In a morning, maybe going straight full bore across a flat snow pack, it’s possible. But for most that’s just way too much. I rent them sometimes for fun, we go up in the mountains all day and maybe put 30-40 miles on them and I’m just guessing. Our average speed is probably 5…

I can see this for recreational snowmobiles where you go out, blast around, come back, load it on your truck and come home again.

187 hp is plenty to get you from A to B. Not everything needs to be capable of 0-60 in 3 seconds and 200 mph. While the CX-5 is certainly one of the better handling crossovers in the market it’s not exactly meant to light anyone’s hair on fire.

Possibly, but behold the bowl where I keep the fucks I give about what other people want:

No, but it feels like an even lower effort buying guide that they gave up on 5 years ago.

Is this just an ad? 

For the last 50 years Americans have mostly lived in suburbs, where they complain about traffic coming into their jobs. They largely still do, with a few high-profile exceptions. There’s almost no one who’s actually forced to live in Midtown Manhattan or Bushwick or Lincoln Park, just people who pretend that they are…

Bottom line: think about how often you are driving in the snow.  If you live in an area that gets below 0 and salt doesn’t work, so snow stays around pretty much all winter, winter tires are a must. If you live somewhere that can get you back to pavement 24 hours after a decent snow fall, it probably isn’t necessary.  

Right? I was going to say, just because I can stop doesn’t mean anyone behind me can.

This rant brings me warmth on a cold Michigan morning.

Concrete doesn’t flex the way asphalt does. Concrete can be used in cold climates where frost heaves and other unpleasantness happens, but it has to be implemented just right or else it is just a mess of cracks.  Keeping asphalt together in the cold climates is a bad enough challenge for most municipalities.

There’s a problem here in the US currently. That problem is the ubiquitousness of AWD in cars that have no business having AWD being sold to people who don’t know dick about AWD other than ‘durr-better traction in snow-durr’. That’s because this feature is sold to every Susan, Chad, and Karen as the end-all-be-all to…

Why? Instead of getting frost heaves the water will get under the concrete and crack it making worse potholes than asphalt. We use bituminous concrete in cold areas because of its flexibility, which concrete doesn't have. 

Dirt is a great road surface. Grew up on it and hate pavement.

For the those who doubt we need studded tyres in Finland, here’s a picture of me being towed up a hill having spun out ON STUDDED TYRES. As you can see, this hill faces the sun and has a nasty little kink at the bottom, limiting how much speed you can carry into it. Driving in the countryside on anything but dedicated…

I’m totally with you— I lived for many years in the Rockies, heavy snow, ice,... all of it.  The most stable, safe, reliable platform in those conditions?  Bozeman to Bend to Big Sky to Boise to Bridger to Brighton?    Audi A8 with Torsen Diffs running power to all four studded tires.  That car will handle it all, in…

Few things.

Unless you’re on compact snow and ice, studs damage the road, and can make your car handle and stop worse than if you didn't have them at all.

For 90% of us, it doesn’t matter what winter tire you are using. Like me, you’ll be surrounded by jackasses driving on balding all-seasons and won’t be able to drive anywhere. (unless there is a nice shoulder on the highway. I’d never condone driving down the un-plowed shoulder to get around these folks, but sometimes…