Meet the object of my affection.
This is my new car. Well this is actually a generic photo of a vehicle that is exactly like mine, color and all. It's a 2010 Subaru Forester, and I love it! I am still thinking of the perfect name for it, so let me know if you have any suggestions. Anyway, I got this car just over 2 months ago, and I only now got to really test this pretty lady out on the roads!
Denver has had an abnormally warm winter thus far. The mountains are getting plenty of snow and chilly weather, but it just isn't making its way to Denver...until today. Today is the first day of a full-fledged "winter storm;" snow, ice, wind, sub-zero/single digit temps and all. So today after work, as I said before, I finally got to test the new wheels in all their glory. I think the exact moment I fell in love was when I easily took off from a stop light at the front of traffic and quickly sped up to 25mph while everyone around and behind me was going 2 mph and struggling to move at all. I had no problems, slips, or slides at all. I felt so cool and proud of my new car. haha.
I also realized how amazing my new car was going to be when a covered pick-up truck in front of me was spinning his wheels on a patch of ice and I, yet again, had not a problem finding traction. Had I still been in the Bu (the Malibu that is) I would have definitely been in the same position as he. However, I would have known how to handle it and hopefully find a little bit of traction. And on that note, I've decided everyone who moves to Colorado, or gets their driver's license for the first time in Colorado, needs to be required to take a "how to drive on snow and ice" class. The man in the truck had no clue how to that very thing and he was not in the right place to be learning for the first time (because it was super icy!). When he couldn't find traction, instead of pumping the gas to try to find traction, or slowly moving onto snow to find traction, he pressed on the gas harder causing his wheels to spin faster and thus fishtailing all over the lane. I even saw his tires smoking at one point and I didn't realize that could happen due to spinning on ice. Of course I suppose it could have been snow "dust" he was kicking up, but it really looked like smoke.
Anyway, moral of the story: I have a new car that handles beautifully on snow and ice, and I am in love with it and the possibilities and adventures that will come with it! Yay!
Denver has had an abnormally warm winter thus far. The mountains are getting plenty of snow and chilly weather, but it just isn't making its way to Denver...until today. Today is the first day of a full-fledged "winter storm;" snow, ice, wind, sub-zero/single digit temps and all. So today after work, as I said before, I finally got to test the new wheels in all their glory. I think the exact moment I fell in love was when I easily took off from a stop light at the front of traffic and quickly sped up to 25mph while everyone around and behind me was going 2 mph and struggling to move at all. I had no problems, slips, or slides at all. I felt so cool and proud of my new car. haha.
I also realized how amazing my new car was going to be when a covered pick-up truck in front of me was spinning his wheels on a patch of ice and I, yet again, had not a problem finding traction. Had I still been in the Bu (the Malibu that is) I would have definitely been in the same position as he. However, I would have known how to handle it and hopefully find a little bit of traction. And on that note, I've decided everyone who moves to Colorado, or gets their driver's license for the first time in Colorado, needs to be required to take a "how to drive on snow and ice" class. The man in the truck had no clue how to that very thing and he was not in the right place to be learning for the first time (because it was super icy!). When he couldn't find traction, instead of pumping the gas to try to find traction, or slowly moving onto snow to find traction, he pressed on the gas harder causing his wheels to spin faster and thus fishtailing all over the lane. I even saw his tires smoking at one point and I didn't realize that could happen due to spinning on ice. Of course I suppose it could have been snow "dust" he was kicking up, but it really looked like smoke.
Anyway, moral of the story: I have a new car that handles beautifully on snow and ice, and I am in love with it and the possibilities and adventures that will come with it! Yay!
