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@MacApple Rear wheel drive in snow is great fun! The roads are deserted so its time to play drifting round corners!

Driver; may be different where I am way down south, but I don't think a scattering of snow is the norm over the last few years. This january and present aside, I don't remember having any snow like this for donkeys, hence the 'surprise'.

That said I do laugh as it has only been a few inches: 'worst winter since '85' and 'the big freeze' has been bandied about the media but how did we cope 30-40-50 years ago when we had proper winters? Proper, you know the ones with snow!

I guess we've had 20 years of moderate winters, but I thought that was the key phrase. Moderate. Why they were not expecting proper winters to come back, I don't know. Global warming? This is what winter should be like!!

We've been reasonably lucky in that we had gritters on the main roads. Good for me is that I have a 4x4 so I can get to work (I run a fireplace/woodburning stove company so this is my time of year to earn!). Bad for me is that get called by family and neighbours 24/7 to get them out, while doing so getting my truck 'gritted' by the overspray from the gritters. Paintwork not so good atm.

More worrying is that most people have no idea of their vehicles' or their own driving capabilities. While main roads are clearish, people will try to drive a front wheel drive car up or down a hill where even I fear to tread and most roads on the Island are very much not main roads. The amount of hatchbacks in hedgerows down here at the moment is sadly comical.

Anyway, enough of my rambling for now.

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Was 31 degrees the other morning, thought i was going to freeze to death, lucky by 2:00pm it was up to 60 degrees! We are very spoiled in the Monterey bay area but dont get to enjoy the change of seasons that most of you do!

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[quote="The Black Baron"]@MacApple Rear wheel drive in snow is great fun! The roads are deserted so its time to play drifting round corners!



It's only fun when the parking lots are plowed ,and I turn off the VSC

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Who cares about seasons as long as it's over 60 and with no snow when you have to drive for work

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- This is Ghost Rider requesting a fly-by. - Negative Ghost Rider. The pattern is full.

Current temperature in my adopted city of Chicago is 19*F, although it feels like 10*F

I walked to the train this morning in 9*F and it felt like 0*F

Just the beginning around here! Count your blessings my man.

I am originally from the Philadelphia area and I must say I never felt like their treatment of routine winter weather events (3-9 inches of snow) was bad. They pretty effectively cleared the roads. The huge snow falls of last year (>12 inches) were not handled as well - businesses/schools had to be shut down for 2 days or so.

A pic of last year's disaster and all the shoveling I had to do at my mom's house:

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“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” - Albert Einstein

I second that emotion. William is no slouch in the looks department himself, although his hair is starting to interfere with his boyish good looks. (I say that as one whose hairline resembled his when I was his age.)

BTW, did anybody notice at the press conference where William and Kate discussed their engagement, His Highness was wearing his Omega Seamaster Professional Quartz? From what I understand, that was a gift from his mother shortly before she died, and it's the only watch he ever wears.

At risk of being a watch nerd, yes I did notice that (although I didn't pick the quartz bit). One of the girls in the office asked me if I knew what it was - clearly my watch fixation doesn't go unnoticed.

I'll see your nerd and raise you a geek if you can tell me in which movie James Bond wears that watch.

Not sure Bond ever wore a quartz Seamaster, but I may be wrong about that. Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig both wore Seamaster autos.

Brosnan wore an SMP quartz in Goldeneye. He wore SMP autos in the other three films. Craig wore a Planet Ocean 45mm in Casino Royale, up to when he's on the train to Montenegro, at which point he's wearing an SMP auto, which he wears for the remainder of the film. In Quantum of Solace, he wears a PO 42mm for the entire film.

Well what do you know. In that case you've earned both of these:

Knowledge of such minutiae is a source of both pride and shame.

Hey D8, is everything still locked down over there?

Hey Otto - Not where I am down South, but I hear the airports around and north of London are still struggling to get back on schedule. We had another brief bout of snow the other week down here, but to be fair to the authorities they actually managed to keep the main roads clear this time. (I actually saw a couple shiny new snow-ploughs on the roads). Even my 550i was fairly managable on the main roads this time.

I have to say, rear-wheel drive cars, and especially autos with a fair bit of power, wide tyres and low suspension, are utter cack when it comes to coping with snow!

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I had a diesel 320d manual and i found it was not great, to say the least, in the snow and worst in the ice. Now you could have fun in it but could also get caught out very very easily. . The . DSC works well and got me out me trouble a few times. Not the traction control the other system that i fully dont understand. Getting the back out on purpose not problem The thing that was most scary was when changing down the gears, mostly 3th to 2nd, on ice the engine would brake the back wheels to a slower rate than the car was going in affect it is like pulling the hand brake. Not fun and would scare the s**t out of me when it would happen unexpectilly. Having the back come like that, not fun. . Now, thankfuly i have recently changed back to a front wheel drive car.

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A Few Breitlings.