Today's nominations are ...

rypt said:
for the most useless award:

- Oxford council for not clearing ANY snow or gritting a single road. Started snowing at 8am ... the first gritter or plow I saw today was at 3:30pm. By this time there were 6-7inches of snow in places with the only thing clearing the roads being the car traffic. No grit was put down last night.
None of the major roads have been cleared still, nothing has been done to the A40 going into Oxford, nothing has been done to Headington or Cowley roads. Nothing has been done to the Ring road (basically these are the only major roads around).
So where did I see this gritter/plow? On St Clements, stuck in traffic due to there being so much snow on the roads.

- BMW X3s for getting stuck in the snow 24/7 ... totally useless cars causing nothing but traffic jams.

- Highways Maintenance pickup truck that crashed into a lamppost on a roundabout exit. JUST DESERTS if you ask me, if only they had bothered to clear the roads of the snow ....


And finally, the nominations for the most awesome person on the road ... me, in my MR2 with summer tyres. I may have been going at 45 degrees for much of the day even when travelling in a straight line ... but I did not get stuck, did not spin out (came close mind you).
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I know how you feel.... Got caught behind some tit in an MR2 who was stupid enough to have Summer tyres fitted during Winter and and he was fish-tailing everywhere like a numpty....

:rolleyes:
 
Forde said:
I love watching the BMW and Mercedes owners walking home.
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I find it kind of strange how some cars struggle to even pull out of car parks where as others go about there business as normal, I know the science behind it but it still bugs me.
On my road trip tuther day the fastest things on the motorway were Transits. :p
 
FortyFive said:
I find it kind of strange how some cars struggle to even pull out of car parks where as others go about there business as normal, I know the science behind it but it still bugs me.
On my road trip tuther day the fastest things on the motorway were Transits. :p
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I would hazard a guess that its more to do with the driver than the car in most cases.... The wheels start to spin and people accelerate even more to fix the problem ?? Seriously ??:confused:
 
I thought it was shown a few years ago that MR2s were actually quite good in the snow due to the fact that their is weight over the driven wells AND the fronts are free to do steering rather than steering AND transmitting power.

Not sure about the physics behind it all, but I do remember someone who came into a forum saying "Well I didn't get stuck in my MR2" getting taken down a peg.
 
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Op does not have one of those ^
 
Joshy said:
I thought it was shown a few years ago that MR2s were actually quite good in the snow due to the fact that their is weight over the driven wells AND the fronts are free to do steering rather than steering AND transmitting power.

Not sure about the physics behind it all, but I do remember someone who came into a forum saying "Well I didn't get stuck in my MR2" getting taken down a peg.
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At the same time MR2s have the drawbacks of being RWD meaning that the car tries to spin when applying power, especially on icy cambered roads.
 
Grit or no grit, ploughs or no ploughs, the roads are still full of morons who haven't a clue how to drive in freezing/snowy conditions so it really wouldn't make a **** of difference IMO.
 
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