It's snowing right now in Dallas. Good thing my vert is at home in the garage.

 

I've driven plenty of rear wheel drive vehicles in snow, frequently on the way to a ski area. The key is tires, tires and tires. Not all season tires and not wide low profile tires. Narrower, higher profile genuine snow tires. I loved driving my Mustang, RX-7 and 350Z in the snow, much more fun than AWD vehicles although the front heavy Mustang benefited from having 100 lbs of sand in the back.

All that being said, I'll not be driving my GS in the oncoming snow storm. I don't have a second set of wheels and tires for it and the low ground clearance and high horsepower don't help either. I've got a 4WD pickup with new all terrain tires that will be fun to try. I don't expect to even put it in 4WD, RWD over steer is SO MUCH FUN!

 

Hmmm.......I shouldn't comment but, a sports car with super wide tires on ice and snow is not a good mix.

 

I drive mine daily... then again, I'm in the Houston area. Snow isn't an issue here. It's just now hit 32 degrees down here. Raining, but no ice yet. I'll be fine. All of you up north stay safe out there.

 

TBH, I don't get it -- unless you have a Corvette and you simply cannot afford a junker for the winter. That sounds like a pretty dumb situation to put one's self in. If you're driving a $15-100k sports car you should be able to afford a $1k junker.

When I was 18 I bought a new '68 Camaro and that totally sucked in the snow. I managed the first winter, but the second winter I bought a $100 beater to drive and stored the Camaro in my dad's garage.

That's what a lot of guys did back then if they had a nice car, and we still do it -- although my main year-around vehicle is a 4WD truck, the Vette is just a summer toy like a motorcycle or a boat.

I won't even get into the stupidity (again) of driving a nice Corvette in the salt.

 

I learned on a RWD Camaro. Drove through blizzards, ice storms even the one in 2000 winter which reached to north Texas/Arkansas. I still drive a 98 Camaro as a winter beater. Last dyno had it hit 487hp at wheels. It's 8 degrees right now and we've had a few days of freezing rain/snow mix. I still made it work just fine.

Nothing wrong with RWD. It's all in the tires. The C6 stays in the garage but in a pinch, I know its drivable albeit carefully on all seasons right now. (Last owner put those on, next set will be summer only)

 

No more than it snows here it aint worth having another car for it. Its a ten year old chevrolet for crying out loud, lol I was only saying between the car and those god awful GYemt's the car is a nightmare to drive in snow. For the record I have a nice crew cab dually worth more and a hell of lot harder to clean so I chose to drive the car...... I probably will opt for the dually next time though

 

I think the owners manuel recommends that your C-6 tires are not designed to be driven below 32 degrees. The summer tires get really hard in cold temps and therefore lose grip and become dangerous. However, you can do some serious burnouts in really cold weather.

 

The wife and I have each have a 2004 cavalier as our daily drivers with over 170K miles. While it doesn't snow here, I agree that these little cars are dependable and cheap to maintain.

Helps keep the mileage off the vette and avalanche.

 

I was caught at the coast when some snow and ice snuck into the coast range and right onto Hwy 101 in Lincoln City, Oregon.

I was going to stay on the relatively flat and lower elevation coastal highway (101 north then 30 east). I headed north and ran into icy roads. As long as I kept my speed stead and any changes very slow everything seemed OK. Somewhere just past the turn out to highway 18 that leads inland and is the normal route home I came upon a police car parked in the middle of the road. There was an accident that was going to be a 2 hour or more delay before Highway 101 was going to reopen. I turned around and headed back to the highway 18 route over the Cascades.

There was a long line of cars heading back and fortunately the average speed was around 25 mph and it never stopped until we were on the flat side of the hills. Right near the Casino it was stop and go traffic. It was then that I began slipping each time I let the clutch out to get rolling again. I'm glad the traffic wasn't stop and go over the hills!

I have Michelin A/S 3's and they had warmed up by the time I headed into the hills.

More recently it snowed in Portland one afternoon while I was at work. We had let the staff go at noon so nobody would be caught in the thick of it. I stayed only a couple hours longer and I'm glad I didn't stay any longer. It was very slick. Again, fortunately my drive to and from is flat. Only one incline to a light that I was able to avoid by circling a block where I was able to keep my speed up.

The next morning I backed down the driveway and stopped in the street. When I let the clutch out to pull back forward the back end went to the right. Falling to the low side of the crowned roadway. I was able to pull foreward into the next intersection adn turn around. But then I was stuck, unable to get back into the driveway. An hour later I had enough of the roadway cleared so I could get enough momentum to get back up into the garage where the car remained until after the thaw.

This is the first vehicle I've owned that I'll leave parked if it snows. I have another vehicle (front wheel drive) taht I can take on days like these. (more snow tomorrow is predicted for us)

Enjoy your weekends!

 

I learned that with '91 Trans Am!!

Don't drive the Vette in snow... Somebody will hit you, trust me, I know.

 

Just buy wheels mounted with snow tires and sensors for $700 dollars like I did a year or two back...corvettes on snow tires rock...

I drove with summer radials throughout the past six winters and never had a real issue. Of course I was driving rear wheel drive pony cars back in the seventies in the ny metro area so for me it was no big deal..

I would suggest the snow tires do make a huge improvement so much so...I'd highly recommend it...

I think the summer performance radials have gotten to the point where the rubbers ability to grip in temperatures under 32 degrees is gone...

Go with snow tires on takeoff rims and drive your corvette with confidence...

No problems and we get about 100inches of snow each winter....

 

That's why I keep a Grand Cherokee parked next to it...........

 

Had to drive the Z06 home one morning from work (fireman, so we work 24 hrs. on). It had snowed 4" during the night. It was a 9 mile drive home. Wasn't fun at all. Never got out of 1st gear, most times not over 5 mph, but made it. Worst thing was trying not to push snow with the front of the car, so had to stay out of the ruts already made. Won't do that again. At the time, it was the only vehicle I had.

 

My GS is my daily too. The GY RFs suck. I got Michelins non-RFs and they are better. Something else that has helped: I got a Vitesse controller for Christmas. Decreasing the power on acceleration (set it to EC2 or EC3) in snow, I find, has improved the traction quite a bit over last year.

 

Put the car away for the winter & buy some beater ride to trash in the snow, this question has been asked many times, but I will ask it again...Why would anyone take one of these cars out in the snow & expect any result but BAD?

 

AGREED! Thats why I purchased a Florida car! And will not see daylight till spring after the salt has been washed from the roads here in Cleveland! My '98 Corolla will be my DD until then!

 

So don't drive a 400 hp lightweight RWD car with crappy high performance summer tires in snow. No kidding. Dont pee into the wind either.

 

My first introduction to driving a MN6 C6 in the snow was the day I bought and had started the process of driving it home. To make it worse, it was night and the previous owner didn't stay on top of tire pressures - so I was scrambling, hoping to find a station with air support, as the car was complaining about one tire being low, around 26 as I recall, when in fact another tire was almost that low, too. Limped my way to a hotel, cleaned off more snow in the morning and hit the road. Was a lot happier to be past all that.

Now, the C6 stays in the garage. We've had around 14 inches of snow in the last week and the only rigs making it out of the neighborhood are larger 4x4 or AWD rigs. We're thankful for our F150 4x4.

 

My base vert put down a 40" contact patch between the rear 11"ers and the front 9"ers. 22" in the rear and 18" in the front does not make a good snow plowing vehicle. The abundance of HP doesn't help much either. You ought to try it in my STSV.