Audi in London

[Grant Lenahan]

wide summer tires on wet snow can offset anything.

You stumbled on the real cause, then moved on !

:-)


On Feb 2, 2009, at 8:03 PM, Bares, Vittorio wrote:

> I'm sitting here in the good ol'USA (NH), watching some BBC news -  
> they
> show a clip of the snow in London, UK - and one particular clip  
> shows an
> Audi TT, barely moving up a very shallow incline with someone pushing
> it.
>
>
>
> I've never seen such a display of technology gone awfully wrong. You
> could see the front wheels trying to spin, but being limited by
> electronics, the rears occasionally turning, but being limited both by
> Haldex as well as more electronics - sure, it didn't have snows,  
> and it
> was in very slippery conditions - but jeeze! It's still an Audi isn't
> it...my old skewl Audi's pull vehicles twice their weight out of snow
> banks, let alone needing to be pushed up a slightly frozen  
> incline...waz
> up wit dat?
>
>
>
> Clearly new is not always better...
>
>
>
> Vittorio -
>
>
>
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