Winter tyres make a huge difference to snow/ice handling & compulsory here between November and April. Got a chance to go up to Gstaad yesterday on a Landrover sponsored snow/offroad driving day. Good fun and got a chance to really try out the whole LR line up at the frozen Saanen airstrip with Winter/Offroad instructors.
I'm in no doubt now the electronics do make a huge difference, esp. DSC and the Snow/Ice setting on all the range (except Defender!!). What surprised me though, is that tyre manufacturer variance is also really noticiable in the same vehicle. Michelin rules on the ice.....

I had to drive to South Devon from Buckingham and back on Thursday to view a collection and was very glad to be in a FFRR. Much good common sense written here, 2 1/2 tons of car carries a lot more momentum into a corner, especially sideways inertia, than a saloon with its lighter weight and lower C of G and Dan the man hit the mail on the head; smooth input.

The M4 and M5 were fairly bad but most of the danger came from inept drivers rather than the conditions. I had the gearbox in manual most of the day and felt happy and secure.

The hightlight of the journey was being overtaken on a back road between Tiverton and Crediton in quite icy conditions by one of those utterley absurd BMW X6s. About 4 miles later the X6 driver had lost it and stuffed the car into, of all things, a pile of grit in a layby!! He was walking about on his mobile and obviously okay so I tooted the horn and waved in a helpful way as I passed him! Rules are made for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Soupdragon wrote:

... He was walking about on his mobile and obviously okay so I tooted the horn and waved in a helpful way as I passed him!

Should have stopped and "PRETEND" to offer him help

I was in the ffrr and a lady was struggling to get her car to grip and wound down her window to communicate with me as i drove alongside. She said" I am struggling to to my car to go and then to stop again, what should i do?" I looked at her in her VW Golf and answered " Buy a Range Rover" and drove off

In reality i said leave plenty of space between you and other cars, dont over rev, choose the right gear etc but the little devil in my head just wished i had said the above. I wished i had let the devil say his bit but i didnt want to send out the wrong image of ffrr drivers

could have said move too somewhere a bit warmer i.e i hear australia is a good bet at the mo.  onto no6 Range Rover

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