Cars are getting bigger all the time. Trucks keep getting taller and longer, EVs keep getting heavier, and wheels seem to add another inch every time we turn our back. Now, it’s possible to see just how big vehicles have gotten over time with a useful online tool. The tagline of Carsized.com is “Bringing car […]
That post photo is hilarious. I can’t imagine feeling safe in that little green car on actual roads, let alone the high way.
Zero chance that would even get up my driveway in winter.
https://youtu.be/B2s8v3htHZY?si=jSVkfO4UB3MfgEsO
Tires matter so much more than vehicle. I’ve had friends say the same thing, that I should park my sedan at the bottom and walk because I couldn’t possible get up something their big manly truck struggled to get up, all it took was some snow tires and a climbed right up, didn’t spin tires, didn’t turn TC, just light gas and I was up. In fact I plowed it for them so the big manly trucks behind me had an easier timing getting up.
I made it home during the snowpocalypse in Atlanta about 10 years ago… in a lowered 2005 Mini Cooper S… On summer UHP tires… A lightweight front wheel drive car, with a stick and a limited slip differential, driven appropriately can go through basically any winter weather until ground clearance is a problem. It is probably better than something heavier in heavy ice conditions like I was in. I was puttering along, starting in 2nd gear to minimize wheelslip, managing my momentum, and passing more bro dozers in ditches or sliding backwards down hills than you would believe.