It’s true, folks–the Chevy Camaro is NOT just a summer car, as you might well have thought. Even I never would have thought of a Chevy Camero as a winter car, at least until I saw this video from Chevy.
Chevy put out this fine bit of advertising trying to appeal, no doubt, to those of us who wouldn’t have thought of this car as doing well on snow. It shows, clearly, that the Camaro is one horse that can handle the drifts and slick roads and do so in fine style.
Admittedly, the course they had this Camaro on was a closed course, and it didn’t look like it was tackling more than a couple inches of snow, but still–it was clearly moving at a high rate of speed on what would clearly be described as snow covered road.
Anyone who’s tried driving snow covered road will tell you that driving at a high rate of speed on one of them is a difficult proposition at best, and a really bad idea at worst. So kudos to Chevy for making the Camaro look like a great snow vehicle!
All right, folks, here’s something interesting for you–not that everything we put up here isn’t interesting, but still. Today we’ve got a look at the newly revamped BMW X5. It’s gotten a “facelift”, if you will, and we’re getting a chance to take a look at the results of that facelift right here in a video.
The facelift is actually pretty nice, too. The BMW X5 is shown looking very competent in snow-covered roads, which is one of the main and surprisingly few viable reasons to actually buy an SUV in the first place, let alone to shell out the massive piles of cash necessary to buy a BMW SUV. But don’t be overly surprised when it suddenly turns into a snowboarding video about a minute and a half in.
The end result is that the BMW X5 comes off looking like a spectacular piece of machinery that you’d definitely want to own and drive if you lived in an area prone to snow. Never mind, of course, that a BMW X5 costs as much as houses do in some places….
So the crew back out at David’s Farm, just three kilometers short of the scenic North Pole in Canada–no, I’m just kidding, they’re farther than that–are back out into the fields and snow and freezing cold to try and start a couple old cars that are apparently just littered around David’s Farm.
And today, he’s got a video for us featuring him trying to cold start both a Volvo and a Buick. It should be interesting to see this matchup, this battle royale versus the pride of Swedish engineering and the marvel of the American motorway.
The Volvo, for its part, seems to no longer have windows and is thusly stuffed at least half full of snow. At least half full–it’s hard to tell from the video angle but there is a LOT of snow in there.
The Buick, meanwhile, no longer has doors of any sort, thus it’s embedded in the center of its own snow drift.
Will Sweden beat the US? Will an American car stand up to years of neglect at the center of a snow drift? Check out the video and see for yourself!
We dunno whether this is real or fake, sad or funny, but this guy is taking awfully long time to clean the snow off his car. Shovel by shovel. Patience is a virtue indeed.
As long as your car is sufficiently solid to repel the cold, and the heater works, and the seats are in one piece and fairly comfortable, you are at the top of the motoring world. It doesn’t matter if you’re driving a BMW or a BD POS (broken down piece of, well, you follow.), because out there at this time of year, only being warm and arriving safely matters.
It really doesn’t matter how fast your car can go zero to sixty when it’s trying to do so on a massive field of slush, and the perfect evidence for that is this video right here.
It’s a BMW X6, one of the higher end cars in the automotive world, and as you can see from the sliding, drifting and fishtailing, it’s just another car, hobbled by the environment.
So enjoy winter, motorists. Take your time and get where you’re going safely. Maybe have some coffee or cocoa along for the ride, listen to the radio, and enjoy your trip. Because here, performance means nothing.
I know that sounds wildly incongruous, but I offer up as evidence the following video of a Texan experiencing snow while driving for the first time.
For those of us who live in snowy climes and brush off any reports of snowfall measuring less than six inches, it’s always a little funny to hear people’s reaction to light snowfall. This fellow, meanwhile, seems a bit confused about his directions, but his Jeep appears to be more than up to the task.
This is a fun little video showing you a couple of things right off: one, GPS is an awesome thing–never forget it. Two, it’s probably not a shortcut to the main highway if you can’t see or hear highway sounds from where you are. Three, Jeep makes an incredible off-road experience.
So enjoy the video, and drive safely–doesn’t matter how much snow you get, all it takes is one slick spot to send you off the road.
…is still better than a good day at work, is how the saying goes for snowmobilers everywhere. But after seeing this particular bad day of snowmobiling, I think even those diehards might be inclined to go back to the office after this particular venture.
It looks like a fairly normal day, with a pair of snowmobilers planning to make one more run out before they lose the last of the daylight. Snowmobile riding after dark, of course, is generally not recommended as an unsafe practice though some do it. But anyway, one snowmobile takes off without problem and goes bounding over the hills and fields.
The other snowmobile, meanwhile, is not so fortunate.
Reading the comments shows that the likely problem here was that the front skis were clotted up with frozen slush and dirt and whatnot, thus impeding the craft’s forward movement, but either way, it sure looks like bad luck to me.
Okay, I know, by now you’ve probably already had your fill and then some of snow, but I assure you that this may be the most interesting piece of car-related news you’ve read lately.
A young lady by the name of Rachelle Brown in Houston, Texas, has created a snow globe, complete with flashing lights and Frosty and Santa Claus and snow. This by itself would mean nothing here until you consider that her snow globe is the entire interior of her Toyota Corolla.
Yes, she’s built a fully mobile snow globe, with cotton for snow and an internal plug to her cigarette lighter running the lights, she’s discovered how to make a commute downright magical–by making it inside a giant four-wheeledToyota snow globe.
She’s got everything laid out just right so as not to block her view of the road, so safety really isn’t an issue. In fact, we all ought to give her a note of applause for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Now, I don’t know how many of you have ever gotten stuck in the mud or in snow while driving, but I can tell you this much–I certainly have. And I would have absolutely loved to have a gadget like this while trying to get myself OUT.
It’s the Foldable Traction Mat, and they’re essentially piece of high-density plastic gadget that can withstand weight and preposterously cold temperatures to give your tire a surface to grab onto that isn’t made of snow, ice or mud.
You just slip the end under your tire–in the mud or snow or what have you–and then you drive onto that. Get out of the sticky item in question, then go back and recover the mat when you’re on safer ground.
This gadget definitely is a smart idea, great for winter and late fall / early spring when mud is prevalent. And forty bucks for a traction mat is a lot cheaper than a tow would be.
Now, I don’t know how many of you have ever gotten stuck in the mud or in snow while driving, but I can tell you this much–I certainly have. And I would have absolutely loved to have a