Taking air out of your tires will give you a wider contact patch which can sometimes help, but more often than not you actually want skinny tires for snow.

that's beautiful.

The sex level here needs to be marked as NSFW

This was one of the reasons I chose an XC90 over a Honda Pilot

Honestly, the biggest one is "I don't need winter tires", but I feel like we have gone over that pretty thoroughly. I'm only saying it again because it's really a message that needs to be pounded home. If everyone in the DC area was on mandatory snow tires, Tuesday would have been a walk in the park.

Next time call the company dispatch.

Promised this:

No WRX hatch with the redesign.

No stick shift in the V6 4x4 or in anything but base trim

A 3.1% drop in traffic fatalities with these numbers is about 1,014 people. Over a thousand people were statistically "Saved" from death, simply by having newer, safer cars.
Meanwhile the war on terror has saved ? number of people from domestic terrorist attacks since 2001. Fun fact: only about 3,400 Americans have…

Oh, please. If you're under 30, road head or fingerblasting is normal.

They're saying "all new," some engine predictions have been kicked around...

This should be entertaining. What are they doing for an opening act, Sumo wrestlers racing mopeds?

Holy crap, at those speeds I bet the driver is only gently suggesting which direction the truck should be traveling

You know you would.

The advantages of DI seem to be diminishing as displacement increases. GM uses DI on their DOHC 3.6L V6 and it doesn't produce appreciably more power than the Pentastar at the same displacement. To make the best use of DI, the combustion chamber in the engine has to have been completely designed around the idea that…

HA! Many minds, one thought.

And because Lutz retired again.

I'm sure the six speed auto will be miles better than the 4 speeds of old, I'd still rather have a clutch pedal in the end. In fact that's the only gripe with this truck, that and it will cost many moneys (if it reaches production).

Just like the three-door Golf R, the wagon (which they call "Variant" for some very German reason) version has a 2.0-liter direct-injection turbo four putting down all that power to each of its giant 18-/19-inch wheels through a six-speed DSG and VW's 4MOTION permanent AWD system.