The snows really starting to grate on me now, road surfacing is starting to break up and small potholes are now big pot holes and there’s new big pot holes where there wasn’t before.

The only thing that I’m glad about, is not having to clear ice from my windscreen on a morning. The best car that i had in the winter was my Ford Fiesta RS Turbo, mainly because it had a heated windscreen, which was a great labour saving device as it just put that on when my windscreen was iced up and within minutes i was able to drive off without cold and damp fingers. As any RS Turbo owner will know the cold weather brings you another great gain which is the cold air which is denser and gave your car more noticeable power.

Anyway i have noticed that recently that some cars are better than others in the snow. Vauxhall Corsas seem to be great which ever model you have, where as Astra’s seem to be a little bit poo, and you can’t even put it down to larger alloy wheels because the one I’m think of has steel wheels.

Out of town there’s still quite a bit of snow around and personally I think it’s going to be another 3 weeks before the majority of roads and fields are clear.

Fiesta RS Turbo