(Winter) Road conditions in Atlanta Georgia? How harsh on a Boxster?

[Adam]

I know what you mean. Something about driving the car after a good wash and wax just makes it feel like a million bucks.

[socratic]

Thanks for the quick answer to the Atlanta Georgia weather and driving conditions.

Part of being a bit reckless when driving in the snow in a valuable vehicle is not accounting for other morons. I nearly lost my Lexus when, during the first snowstorm of the year, a kid in a Honda Civic burnt around a corner at speeds that would have been risky in the rain let alone snow. A foot or so was the difference between the kid skidding past me and slamming into the front of my SUV at angle that would have surely bent it enough to have it written off. [Of course, then my "full-replacement cost" insurance would have kicked in and I might have been settling in now in a new RX400H...]

[YellowJacket]

I lived in Atlanta for 15 years, and did not drive in snow once. It may snow once a year, but it usually doesn't stick enough to even have to clear the roads. And even if they do salt, 99% of businesses close down anyway. And again, this is MAYBE once a year.

And to anyone being a snob about driving Boxsters in the snow -- has it ever occured to any of you that some of us drive this car because it's a fun way to get to work with a smile on your face, not because we want a sparkling show queen with 52 miles on the odometer sitting in our garages. Furthermore, there are people out there who would use their Boxster as their daily driver to keep the miles off of something far nicer! So let's cut the elitist adittude; you don't know everyone's situation.

As for myself, I drive my Boxster because I am practical. Why have an old Honda to drive back and forth to work in 90% of the time? I'd much rather do that in my Boxster -- rain, sleet, and snow -- and when I use the car up (which won't be for a long time the way this thing runs!), I'll trade it in for something else fun.