Hi, I'll repeat what I said earlier, the Nokian RSi is their newest dedicated winter tire, less performance oriented than the WR, but not bad on dry at all, believe me, you can barely tell you have snows on. But man, they grip like crazy.

Two nights ago, we sat waiting in a ski area parking lot while a fully loaded old Volvo 240 tried repeatedly to get a running start up the very icy access road to exit, getting nowhere, backing up ourselves and two other cars. I estimate the slope to be about 12 degrees, and a long way out at that same incline. Not sure if it had snows on or not. All it did was sit and spin that one skinny rear tire over and over. Finally they gave up, coasted back and waited.

From a standing start next to them I proceeded, and zip, up we went, no problem, no hesitation, just the traction control light flaring away, and we were gone.

There you go. The contrast couldn't be plainer, two heavy old rear drive wagons, one with hi-tech snows/electronic traction enhancements, and one without. It was like being in a car magazine controlled testing environment.

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