I love driving RWD in winter, especially a good one with a torquey V-8 and a manual transmission like my BMW 550i. It handles so amazingly well in the snow, so effortless. Obviously, high quality winter tires like Nokian Hakkas are an absolute requirement.
I wanted a drifty car to put known amazing snow+ice tires on (Nokian Hakkapeliitta) and wound up with a BMW e36 with the small 6cyl. The tires made it way, way less drifty than I’d hoped- even in 10” of heavy lake effect snow, it just grunted along like it was raining & 50°F. I didn’t even have to wait for the snow plows because *it plowed the snow*.
The cross climates are great but weren’t cheap!
MICHELIN CROSSCLIMATE 2. Are doing great.
replaced with a set of Michelin crossclimate 2's, road noise went wayyyy down, traction went wayyyy up, and I've never looked back.
Any wheel that is 18x8.5 +42/+45, and 235/40R18 Michelin X-Ice or Nokian Hakka tires and you'll be golden
We bought Michelin WeatherGuards last year and we are really happy with them. We live in the mountains, my wife’s a nurse, they were safe on snow, ice and in rain.
I have landed on Nokian all-weather tires (WRG5 is the current generation). They are a pretty decent compromise for the typical range of conditions we see here. Yes, there are better tires for the harshest of winter conditions, but the Nokian All Weathers are in the sweet spot more days of the winter than any Hakkas or Blizzaks I've ever owned. The only real downside I've noted is relatively short life before they get noisy.
I had this Michelin PS4 too. After 11 tkm they looked like the tires from OP.
It was a Subaru wrx sti. And i live in Germany…
The Defender IIs aren't like the Defender LTXs that I had 2 sets of previously. These new ones were unacceptably noisy and rough riding.
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