The snow has finally reached the midlands - I woke up this morning to a few inches of snow. Unfortunately I'd left my car at work the day before and took a train home from the xmas party so I needed to go collect it and bring it the 10 miles back home.
As my zed is my only car and I knew I'd need to use it over winter I had some winter tyres fitted a month or so ago. Today was the first time I've had to test them properly. When I reached the car, in a very snowy deserted car park, I was amazed at just how much grip it's got in these conditions. The drive home was fine, accelerating, steering and braking were all very impressive on some pretty poor road conditions.
If anyone needs to use their zed over the winter then I can't recommend winter tyres highly enough!
Returning to Leamington there was/is about 3-4 inches of snow and my road is completely untreated, I just drove to the end and pulled into a parking space without any trouble, which is more than can be said for a Mito, Avensis and Vectra all struggling near-by.