I'm originally from Chicago, a yankee. Of course winter there is different than in the Atlanta metro area where I now live (35 years). When we have snows here, yes sometimes big snows with ice, the yankees drive 50+ MPH as they would up North. The Yankees proudly boast "I know how to drive in the snow you don't, ha!".

Well, that just doesn't fly here. We sadly shake our heads, here they end up in the ditch, flip, rear ending others, crash into dividers and the like. Their ego got the best of them causing them to loose their butts. Why? We have hills also some of the snow melts during the day then at night it will refreeze. What you now have is super slick areas, black ice. On hills it doesn't matter if your driving a tank you're going to slide. Again the ego induced yankee gets on the road driving as they did up North. Oh-well it's all over but the shouting.

Yep you may be able to drive fast but you won't be able to slow down faster than any other vehicle. This is because our Xterra are over 4,000 pounds and we have inertia on our side. So brag if you will about the high speed you drive in the snow. Just remember the story about the guy that jumped off the building: as he was falling people called to him asking "are you okay", "yes" he replied "but I haven't hit the ground yet". Driving fast on snow your crash is coming, I pray you don't take anyone with you.