[s-cars] Another positive review for Artic Altimax

[JAM]

I'm another S6 one on the Generals, studded.  They have been everything we 
could ask for.  As others have said, they do squirm on dry pavement but that 
is expected in a serious set of snows.  For cheap snows or for any price, 
they really kick ass.  They just got my wife through a 3 hour trip through 
the mountains at the beginning of the east coast snow storm.  It did take 
her 5 hours to get home but most of the delay was with detours, wrecks and 
slow traffic.  The last and hardest test is our driveway which is steep, 
long, and had ~4-5" of heavy snow on it which she said the car handled w/o 
problem.
Bottom line, they're friggin' sweet tires, no doubt.  Now that the snow is 
14" deep and unplowed, the S6 is sitting in the garage with the urq while 
the F250 got down the driveway due to its ground clearance.
Jason Mawhinney
'95.5 S6 avant (Altimaxed)
'95 S6 sedan (stuck in the driveway on old Dunlop wintersport M2s)
'83 urq (staying warm in the garage)
'96 Passat TDI wagon (snowed in)
'96 F250 (ground clearance is nice, out and playing grocery getter)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew B" <andrew.sb at gmail.com>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Another positive review for Artic Altimax


> I've heard very good things about these too.  Supposedly General is
> now owned by Continental, who also owns Gislaved.  They're said to be
> similar or the same as the nordfrost 3, which was very highly ranked a
> few years ago, but Gislaved is onto #5, I think.
>
> These would be top of my list, if I bought new.  Hopefully picking up
> some Hakka RSIs this week!
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