i must share this with you guys ,i live in a townhouse were there is a parking lot ..a day ago it snowed pretty bad with ice ...so i thought i have to take my suv truck to work...boy was i wrong my suv with 4 wheel drive hi/lo could not get me out of our parking lot it has a slight incline...so now im frustrated ..a couple more guys came out jumped in there suvs and could not get out period ...a jeep cheroche ford expedition an acura mdx ...so now i parked the truck then jumped in my x-type and to my amazement i just cruised by everyone like i was driving on dry pavement...i love my x it has the knew series continentals ...i can go anywhere with no spin i take the dsc off and away i go

 

Dude, i KNOW what u mean, we got like 3 feet of snow, and i remerb leaving the school, alt he cars get stuck, suv's truck everything. and then everyones like, yup, you cars done disco. And to everyones amazemet i just plowed thorugh like nothing. I've made a habit of taking pictures of almost every horrible day in winter here, so i can post them, the jags in all of them.at one point there was snow higher then the hood and she just kept going. THEse cars are snow tanks.

 

Here is a TV advert we had in the UK at launch of X Type
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hu4iHYVkdw
There are loads more with X Type in snow eg drifting in the Alps

I was wishing I still had my manual 3.0 AWD last week as my XJ (RWD auto) nearly slid into parked cars going up a hill with a slight frost.Had to keep slowing for speed humps and just couldnt get going again.Queue of cars behind, so I had to pull over, let them past, reverse into a side street and go gingerly back down the hill and take a long route around which wasnt as steep.My X Type would have accelerated up the hill no problem.
Dreading the snow/ice

 

Jeremy Clarksson tested a station wagon X Type AWD and it was just impressing .Of course tyre choice is dead vital as well as driving skill

 

yeah iwish top gar did more vids of it, besdies racing the skier, and regualr driving

 

correct me if im wrong 2004 on up had a differant style awd system which made the wheels slip

 

Until...you hit a curb? Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

next time im going to post pics of trucks getting stuck and the x cruising by...

 

Yep. The x-type is beastly in the snow. I love driving that car in Michigan. It's utterly useless down in TX, though. That, and I'd rather not drive anywhere in the snow here. People have no idea how to drive in the snow down here.

 

BuckMR2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hu4iHYVkdw

LOVE it!

 

Modr, you just had to ehh lol, don't worry about, everyone i know just says it too, drives me nuts but hery what can you do