Anyone live in a snowy area? How's the Supra handle in the snow? I know it's RWD with a front mounted engine, but it weighs over 3000 pds. I'd be drivin her on the highway (bout 70 miles each way) daily, and sometimes it gets pretty snowey up here.
Any advice?

Handles like poop ! Period !.....Snow = front wheel drive.

I drove mine in the snow once, I had no choice... I would never do it again, it sux in the snow. It is however good for doughnuts in the snow!!

Well...with the posi in the back you're a lot better off than another RWD car. We get ice here in Texas, and you can't drive on ice, no if's and's or but's about it, even a tank would lose it without cleats, which aren't legal here.

A RWD car with a posi or locker will do better than a 4WD vehicle with open diffs (TRUST ME I KNOW). FWD is the way to go, but where's the fun in that :lol:

not a winter or snow car,if you want a daily driver in a snow infested habitat this is not it,alot of skill is required plus it's too damn stressfull to have your life in danger.drive a supra when it's nice out,drive a 4by 4 or fwd in snow,plus you don't want to increase your chances of carreening around until you hit something.hope this helps,have a good day!

If you absolutely have to drive it, in a city, on cleaned off roads, at a lower speed, with waay longer braking times, then it's possible, (but the heater is so poor i'd recommend thick gloves) anything else like highway, rural, etc.) I'd say no. even with snow tires, (all season radials on a supra are ridiculous)
Speaking from experience, if you really need to get a supra for the winter, I'd recommend a mkII, It'll start in -50 (with a block heater) and would drive through almost anything in winter, (but you really have to know what you're doing the rearend gets very squirrley.)

also, winter is very hard on these cars, so you'll either be doing a lot of work to it, or really shortening it's lifespan.

two 40-pound sand bags in your trunk plus snow tires ...


...it will still suck... but it will suck less...

my boss had a turbo and had a light dusting of snow on his drive way, and its got 0% incline...........and the damn thing still couldent get up the driveway, from what im told my supras coming off the road in the winter.

The dang thing comes loose easy enough in wet conditions...I would never ever ever drive my Supra in the snow...it's far too valuable to risk it!!!

Man, I dunno about you guys, maybe I'm just used to driving in carppy traction conditions considering I used to offroad. Supras came with ABS and a LSD, shouldn't be much harder than driving a truck with an open diff and bald tires on ice...

I'm thinking that the problem is the boost coming in and kicking your tires out, that would suck, that and the clutches on the supra's aren't very smooth (for a toyota), might account for it. I live in Texas, and when it snows here, the streets are empty, so it's not like up north where nothing changes...

We put an oversized set tire chains on ours once and it worked very well ( as well as a car with chains on it will..).

I told my wife that I'd have to take her Saturn on snowy days "because it has traction control". I stayed away from the whole "because I knowingly bought a cool sports car that sucks in the snow, knowing I have to drive 70 miles one way in the Colorado winter". I hope she dosen't catch on... :lol:

so then your wife is going to be driving the supra to the grocery store on snow days ?
shrewd ;) lol

so then your wife is going to be driving the supra to the grocery store on snow days ?
shrewd ;) lol [/b][/quote]
Nope. Reason I got a 5 speed is She Can't Drive Em! Once I get rid of the back seats, It'll be all mine! No wife or kids allowed!

She'll just have to deal with it. Considering I bought her her 05 L300 as a gift.

Yeah I gave mine the '02 RSX type S...she drives the $20,000 car, I get the Supra and AE86 to play around w/...

well put some weight in your trunk and go hard, its just like a truck. well for me that is, i live in canada and we have alot longer and more fierce winters than you do so i'm just use to it.

True, winters up there are harsh. We get our first snow fall in October usually, and it dosen't end till May. Then we get them fluke June and July snowstorms...

So you drive the Supra in the Snow? What's your trick? I know you said weight it down and something else I didn't quite get...do you use sandbags? Cat Litter?

Well considering your question, I think i might be of help,,, WHy ???? i live in winterpeg manisnowba canada (winnipeg manitoba) and yeah the winters here are almost always 8 months long, and most of the time the snow can get up to a few feet deep, but good ol city workers sand the streets, so i don't see how it would be any harder... i mean well there's the obviouse, cause it's snowy weather, but idon't plan on any highway driving in the winter, just local driving, and the car i was driving before i got my avenger, was a standard accord, ol 88 one, and it wasn't that hard to drive at all, i mean for a high performance car like the supra AND with it's weight i can see how it would be a little tricky, but i really think everyone is over exagerating here, it's just snow, i've lived here my whole life, and drivin a standard 8 months of the year in winter, HARSH WINTER!!! for the last two till i got my avenger and it's fine, just be carefull, and know your vehicle, anyways, hope i helped, ttyl... :D :D :D

Does added weight really help?
 

When it snows I the SUPRA does NOT go out. Although I once drove home when it was just starting and i hit the tems on and stayed in 2nd gear. Where I live it doesn't snow all that much but when it does LOOKOUT! My neighborhood is nuthin but hills (with no sidewalks i might add lol) you leave my house going down and come back going up the hills. I once drove it in the snow when i first had got it and didn't know anything about it. Well long story short i was going 20mph gently tapped the brakes and definitely didn't slow down (the car in front of me stopped me) got stuck three times coming up the hills and one time took 2 hours to shovel it out when i got stuck. But does added weight really help? i know that the fact that the engine is front end and the drive is rear doesnt help but how much added weight? cuz i don't see much of a difference

hey everyone. up in canada bc here and we just got our first snowfall intown.. I bought my supra(89 turbo) about a month ago and it came with all seasons on.. so i figured id make it through the season just driving around town. but this morning when i left home for school.. i took the the same left that i do every day but this time i was suprised by a nice 180.. so now im going to invest in some sand but the question is how much weight? I had planned to go up snowboarding tomorrow because its opening day at the hill but i dont know whether to go in my supra or with my friend in his tempo with bald tires(the road should be plowed/sanded for my way up)... and does anyone got any tips for driving 5spd in the snow? i found out the hard way not to downshift to 2nd for those corner turns..

tips for driving in the snow with a supra:

1. dont go out in the snow with a supra

2. look at number 1

i got stuck on 1 inch slush-ice

I'm looking to buy a supra as well and I live in Denver suburbia...

I NEVER drive up to the mountains, always on salted/sanded roads. I used to drive an old Mitsu. Mighty max, RWD, manual, with a rear end light as a feather and leaf springs bouncy as hell... and I made it all right through some snow storms. (Admittedly, I did use sandbags in the bag.)

But you guys are scaring me; from the posts I've read it seems like the supra might go spinning off helplessly the second I undo the parking brake...
Do you guys live in places where it doesn't snow often or just bad drivers? If it really is that incredibly bad, (remember my truck as a comparison) I might have to not buy it, but tell me otherwise! :D

well i live in nj, depending on how the weather is...we get a decent amount of snow...like every other winter, the weight of the supra kind of gives it better traction than most rwd sports cars, but still that shouldnt be much of a problem....i found it hard to drive because i live in a hilly area...so teh supra cant make half hte hills going up...when going down i pretty much slide down the hill, but it could also be because when i drove that one time in teh snow...i didnt change teh tires....i still had a pair of street tires not designed for snow, and the town dint salt or sand the roads so that dint help, i pretty much had a friend who owns a trailer and an suv tow me home since i couldnt make it....im not a bad driver hahaha

The heavy weight of the MkIII will come as an advantage in winter for better traction on acceleration. Although it is a major advantage on deceleration because its mass stores a lot of kinetic energy, making its momentum difficult to stop and control. Being rear wheel drive dosen't help either.