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Originally Posted by relinquish
Looking into getting an i8 as my dd and wanted some feedback for winter driving?
Clearance is not the best, but I have another SUV for those snow storm days.
Just wanted to see what you guys thought for light snow with winter tires?
Particularly, anyone in Toronto that survived a winter with it?
Thanks for the help!  |
I have driven my i8 as a dd through three Swiss winters, coming up on the fourth. I don’t play in deep snow - obviously - because of the ground clearance. It handles fine. Not significantly better or worse than other sports cars - which generally don‘t make great winter cars, of course. One challenge is that full-time AWD is only on in sports mode, which comes with a „twitchier“ gas pedal. And that is the opposite of what you want in slippery conditions. In manual-shift cars, I routinely take off in second gear to manage the torque a bit better. Unfortunately, flappy-pedal (cheers to Clarkson) gearboxes don’t let you do that.