I agree that if you have a short winter or are in an area where you don't get much snow anything drives OK with a good set of snow tires. But why would you subject a nice car to the brutal conditions of winter driving, the paint will get destroyed from gravel the undercarrage/exaust will get rusted out from the salt. I grew up in Lk. Tahoe CA and now live in the middle of WV it is way to easy to buy a beater 10-15 year old Subaru with 200,000+ miles that will run forever, handles better than anything in the snow and is AWD for under $1,000. I guess if you want to re paint every spring (I have a frend back home that has a S4 that does) that is up to you, for me I'll let my S2000 take a break until mid May
