RWD GT in Snow

[Cjm1980]

Hello everyone! I have not yet taken the Stinger plunge but I think I am close. Coming from a 2013 Genesis 3.8 (RWD). I prefer RWD to AWD and live in an area that gets a little snow (Long Island NY). I feel like the GT with the LSD will give me much better snow performance than my existing ride, but would love to hear some feedback. I am asking that the dealer swap out the summer rubber for all season btw. Thanks!

 

[Kyle]

I have a RWD gt in southwest Ohio where we usually have a few good snows a year. My dealership didn’t swap the summers for all seasons so I got myself some dedicated winter tires. Even in just rain it is easy to get the backend to kick out if you are taking turns quickly, but when I had to drive in snow as long as I accelerated and applied brakes smoothly I didn’t have any big issues

 

[DaBears4Lyfe]

I ran DWS06 and had no issues. FBO with JB4 and meth.

 

[MisterMac]

I wish I could speak directly to your question, but I own a GT2 AWD in the desert southwest.

That being said, for a week I had a Stinger 2.0 Premium RWD. It rained a few times and I was shocked by the frequency my rear-end slid away from me! I had to baby it. Something I never have to do with my AWD in any conditions. I knew then I would never want the Stinger in RWD. I accelerate hard and drive spirited. I can only imagine the RWD in snow. I'd have to be in granny mode!

 

[Laszlo Kunos]

Hello, I bought a GT RWD in last December and used a lot in snow (we had much more snow than usual). I used Vredestein Wintrac Pro tyres and they were fantastic. I did not notice any difference between the Stinger and our AWD Sorento during normal highway and city use. My previous FWD Sportage was much less stable even with winter tyres.

 

[GenesisG70]

Sorry it doesn't snow in Florida...

 

[MisterMac]

Sorry it doesn't snow in Florida...

That was overwhelmingly insghtful.

 

[GenesisG70]

That was overwhelmingly insghtful.

Yes, indeed! Someone asks me and I answer.

 

[brancky3]

As long as you drive for your conditions and use snow tires it will handle better than FWD / AWD without snow tires. It barely ever snows in SC but I put on snow tires on my RWD just in case (Michelin X-Ice). This past winter it 'iced' one night and I couldn't get out of my driveway (~8% incline or so).... but even my wifes AWD Audi Q5 with snow tires barely made it out.

 

[MisterMac]

A little off tangent here, however, this topic strikes me as funny. Funny in how much things have changed since the late 70's / early 80's when I first started driving.

I grew up just north of Detroit on Lake St. Clair. Driving RWD land yachts or muscle cars such as a '76 T-Bird, '71 Caddy with a 472 cubic inch engine, a '74 impala, and a '71 Firebird. We'd drive out on the lake (in retrospect, stupid, but fun as anything imaginable), and plow through the snow like a hot knife through butter. Schools and businesses didn't close for weather, so you had to do whatever you had to do to get there. Nearly everybody had a shovel, snow shovel, a tow rope, and a couple bags of sand in their trunk. We seemed to get along just fine.

Things sure are different now. Snow tires, lol. If there was such thing back then, we either weren't aware, couldn't afford them, or simply didn't want to lose the exhilarating feeling of fish-tailing or spinning out! Ah!, the good ole days.....

 

[brancky3]

A little off tangent here, however, this topic strikes me as funny. Funny in how much things have changed since the late 70's / early 80's when I first started driving.

I grew up just north of Detroit on Lake St. Clair. Driving RWD land yachts or muscle cars such as a '76 T-Bird, '71 Caddy with a 472 cubic inch engine, a '74 impala, and a '71 Firebird. We'd drive out on the lake (in retrospect, stupid, but fun as anything imaginable), and plow through the snow like a hot knife through butter. Schools and businesses didn't close for weather, so you had to do whatever you had to do to get there. Nearly everybody had a shovel, snow shovel, a tow rope, and a couple bags of sand in their trunk. We seemed to get along just fine.

Things sure are different now. Snow tires, lol. If there was such thing back then, we either weren't aware, couldn't afford them, or simply didn't want to lose the exhilarating feeling of fish-tailing or spinning out! Ah!, the good ole days.....

Also from that area (my uncle had a house in St. Clair Shores on the water) but the difference here might be as simple as tire size. The '76 T-Bird has the equivalent to 215 width tires which help tremendously cutting through snow (thinner = better). If you put 215s on the Stinger your snow traction will definitely improve.