[Rossman]

Originally Posted by wparsons

Having driven through a winter with mine already, you might want to re-think your choice. The dry grip difference between a ice/snow tire vs a performance snow is quite minimal, but the grip difference in actual snow is much bigger. You'll also want a narrower tire for snows, too wide of a tire will just float on top of snow and not give you any real bite.

As for the Torsen diff, that's not going to magically give you a ton of traction, I had a couple days where I could barely get up a small incline with ice/snow tires when the snow was really wet and packed down into almost ice easily.

At the end of the day these are light RWD cars that don't have a ton of weight on the back tires, they need good ice/snow tires if you plan to drive it on anything but dry/wet pavement.

I found that with good snow tires this car was extremely sure-footed...