4 bolts per wheel? No, thanks.

Missing from this article is the idea of buying winter wheels for those winter tires.

I owned a FWD 2007 Sienna for 10 years (until yesterday). Not once did I touch the spare. I get your point, but tires are so good now that spares are silly. Other stuff will happen to your vehicle instead.

Have to concur here that unsafe speeds like 100 are disturbingly common, with 2 stories:

If this were Vancouver I would have guessed the whole crew were expat Chinese. Ontario?...not so sure.

As a bicyclist who rides in the snow, I can attest that skinny is usually better. The one exception is the 1-3 inch hard packed stuff automobiles have been riding over, where punching through it messes up my steering.

Getting tough to visit Europe

Nice Price indeed. Drop the top, go to the beach and ice cream store. Cart your city council member through the Vet’s Day parade. Put the top up, park it, and bang your S.O. in the back seat.

<quote><quote>But it definitely makes a motorized two-wheeler the second fastest way around the city in rush hour by a long shot.</quote>

(5) Take a teenage passenger along and hand the phone to him. I did this with my 14 year old for a 5 mile drive in the Chicago Loop (where we had errands). Started at level 2, ended at Level 6 with over 150 pokeballs.

I drive a 2008 Sienna that takes 4x8s. I assumed all minivans could do that.

Well, I’d say Tesla kicked ass with respect to electricity. But math, not so much...he rather disliked math. And he did not believe electrons existed, or that special relativity (let along general relativity) could be correct. (ref: http://anengineersaspect.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/great-…)

In that situation it looked to me like one could take advantage of the few minutes in which it floats pretty well. Simply exit the car through a sunroof or window above the waterline and push it to shallower areas. The vehicle might even drive out in electric mode if you had a friend to help.

Those black patches are for helping you free the car from snowdrifts. Basically, MacLaren’s version of these:http://www.amazon.com/Portable-Tow-T…

When I saw the crappy thin rope being tied through the wheel I thought they were fools and it would never hold. Then strap wrapped around the tire and, wow.

“foot massage”

Eddie Murphy has been there....

This reminds me of the glaring plot hole in the entire Harry Potter series. There’s a time travel device (a “Time Turner”) with relatively few rules around its use. In the books, it’s basically used for cramming a few more hours of work into the day, every school day.

Contrary to the rest of the folks, I almost totally disagree about the efficacy of engine braking in snow.

Probably Russia. Got to be Russia.