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Originally Posted by spearfish25
Just remember these caveats:
1) A beater with old, non-winter tires is a death trap.
2) A Z with winter tires is a very capable and safe winter car.
3) A Z with winter tires will perform better than a beater with non-winter tires
The beater option keeps your Z off the winter streets but you're only safer if you still put appropriate tires on it.
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As someone who spent my first 19 years living in SW Michigan, I disagree.
Beater is the way to go. Z is not something anyone should drive in winter. You need clear streets to drive the Z due to the low ground clearance, and as someone from chicago should know, most streets aren't cleared by plow trucks, especially if you live in the suburbs. You don't need the streets clear to drive a beater (or at least ones that are better winter vehicles...such as 90's blazers, etc)
My Civic will do better than my Z in winter. My truck will do as well as the Civic (with around 400lbs of sand in the back to even out the weight distribution)...neither of those have winter tires on them...but they have all season tires. Z has summer tires...
It's like someone driving a vette in winter. I don't understand it. Nice car, but not something to drive in winter. Performance + ice and snow = death trap.