Northeast Snow!

[coolieman1220]

So I'm sure you guys have all been following this bad weather we've been getting so I'm here to report in on it. Last week Saturday here in Staten Island we got about 5" of snow, not bad at all, barely anything. This past Wednesday we were dumped with about 15" of it (about 40cm for you metric ppls) It was that heavy wet snow too so a pain to shovel.

The G was obviously not driven because it was so much snow it would most likely high center and get stuck, also not having an LSD can make it a pain to drive. The side streets were terrible, major roads are fine. Most people don't clean well enough so they just throw snow in the street, also there is nowhere to put it all. When the plow does pass it either kinda cleans or makes a huge mess at intersections. Most side streets only had enough width for one car so its like playing a game of chicken. I left her in the garage

The Lexus can go through the snow but it doesn't do a good job at all. It lacks confidence especially in the turns. It likes to slide around and when the traction control kicks in it beeps at you. Then it takes over and just stops you instead of helping you. When you plow into a big pile of snow with one side you just feel the whole car turn into the snow. Its not reassuring. The amount of snow we had I probably could have gotten it stuck if i was careless.

The Q5 is amazing. On regular road its fantastic and in the snow it's a beast. Don't even have snow tires on it, OEM Michelin all seasons and it just goes. The Quattro all wheel drive system works wonders. It gets you out of anything. Never a wheel spinning. It puts traction where it needs it and just goes right out, no issues. (lets see what Ferrer says about this Audi) On snow it drives fine, no issues with sliding or handling and if you do get over zealous the ESP kicks in and straightens you out no problem. its crazy how nice it is in the snow. I went to the local mall parking lot, all 15" of snow was un touched and i drove right into it and right thru it without a problem. No problem at all in any amount of slow, its an animal! I love the Q5!

I uploaded some pics for you guys to see what we went through! Some are taken with my Nikon D200 DSLR and the others were taken with a Canon Powershot D10 (Weatherproof)

See you guys next week, i'm going to Vermont to ski!