Originally Posted by rip raster

YIKES!!!
Some of the big hills can be treacherous no matter what vehicle you are in especially if you have a sheet of ice under all that snow. It gets to be like driving on a ice rink.

I am in Richmond though and we have no hills so I never give it much thought now that I have the Jeep. With the Beemer though the rear end is pretty light making it hard to get any traction, I had a slight incline in my driveway and I couldn't even get the car out of the driveway during one snow fall. It actually handles well with snow tires if the snow is not that deep. The real problem with the deep snow is that the car is so low that it acts like a snowplow and the snow will just accumulates at the front of the car until there is so much that the car just stops. That and the cold air induction is on the air dam and when that gets blocked the car basically suffocates and stalls.