it is the worst handling vehicle to drive in the snow and ice that I have ever owned. This is the only negative thing I have ever said about my Armada. Overall I love it. It is rear wheel drive. On snow and ice covered roads though, this thing is hard as hell to handle. You press on the gas pedal just a little and the rear starts sliding and fishtailing. If you get stopped on a hill your done.
Yesterday I , like thousands of others, had to drive home in the snowstorm. The roads got really slick in west nashville. I was having a hard time getting going on flat roads whenever I got stopped at a red light. I finally made it almost all the way home. There are several steep hills you have to go up close to my house. The roads were packed with cars. If there was nobody on the roads I could have probably gotten enough speed up to make it up the hills. The way the cars were moving so slow, I didn't even want to try. All it would take would be one person in front of me slowing down or stopping and I would be stuck.
My son kept saying, "come on dad, park it. We can walk home from here." I figured a walk would be better than sliding into a ditch. We pulled off on a side road and parked. Normally a 2 mile hike would be fun. Walking up and down hills when it is 18 degrees and blowing snow it not as much fun as it sounds, well at least not for me. My son had ball. Something ain't right with that boy. It took us just under an hour to walk the 2 miles home.
Nothing like a little bourbon to warm the insides.
rant off/