The chap that undertook our line of slow (20mph) traffic today as we were trying to deal with 3" of hard packed snow and ice obviously thinks so.
I saw him approaching rapidly up the inside on the untouched snow in lane one , he undertook 6 cars then forced himself into the line of steady traffic right behind a police car who were obviously to busy to stick on the blues + twos to have a chat.
My initial though was it was a Q7 but as he scuttled passed it was an ML , bloody Mercedes drivers.
And while I am on my soapbox , the snow has been falling heavily for the last five hours most of which I have spent on the roads running errands for people and I have only seen ONE gritting lorry out , bloody councils.
Rant over . off for a curry now (in the Clio as the CLS wouldn't even get me out of the driveway , bloody RWD.) .
Kenny
I have to wonder why there was untouched snow in lane one ? - since that's where everybody is supposed to be driving , unless overtaking . Although , if it was on the M8 , I often find that lane one flows better than 2 & 3 and just cruise along there at a sensible speed , past the queues on my right .
Inappropriate speed and barging in , of course , are inexcusable , but I would have no problem with someone making careful progress down lane one if it were available .
Re RWD/FWD - during last week's sudden snowfall in North Ayrshire which saw many people stuck , SWMBO had difficulty getting back to Dalry from Kilmarnock , such were the surface conditions and people who were unable to move . After eventually getting to Dalry , she ended up abandoning her Ford Focus in the village as she stated the wheels were just spinning and the car sliding sideways
In the meantime , I returned from Edinburgh in the SL , only encountering snow beyond Howwood , and finding conditions deteriorating by the time I reached Beith - snow was falling quite heavily , but the surface of the A737 was perfectly OK due to passage of traffic . However , on reaching the roundabout at the west end of Beith , I could see that traffic was queuing as far as the eye could see . Not wishing to sit in that queue , I went round the roundabout and back to the previous junction then along a country road which was covered in two or three inches of virgin snow . Simply by driving sensibly , in my RWD car equipped with standard all-year-round tyres , I was able to negotiate this road without difficulty as far as Highfield , then doubled back along to my house ( I had already noted that nothing was coming up the road from Dalry - and the message I had got from SWMBO was that nothing was getting in or out of the village - she got the train out and walked the mile up from our local station ) , despite now going uphill , I passed a mile and a half of queuing traffic and got home without difficulty , although I did note there were three cars which had left the road and were in the ditches ( all were FWD hatchbacks ) . I drove her down to recover her car the following morning , by which time the traffic had dissipated .
In the early hours of Thursday morning , I drove to Aberdeen , and from Dunblane to Perth this was in heavy snow on untreated surfaces , although I just stayed in lane one with the trucks who were doing a good job of keeping two black tramlines open .
I wasn't out yesterday , but have been out today - all main roads are fine and the few untreated side roads and car parks I was in were perfectly passable .
Similarly , in years gone by , both my W126 and various W123 and W124 cars all coped easily with the snow , while others , mainly FWD , tended to get stuck . Going by all the stuff one hears on here , I had expected my S203 to be useless , but I drove it through two winters and never got stuck once with it .
Best cars of all in the white stuff , though , were the air-cooled Beetles which would go anywhere , problem with them was keeping the windows clear
