Want to get a nice fun sports car

>want to get a nice fun sports car
>live in an area where it winter is actually winter
>need to get different tires every 6 months, will accumulate rust and rot out within 10 years tops regardless of what you do, RWD is inherently less stable in snow than FWD or AWD given the same tires, sports cars will gut your wallet faster than a crazy bitch with a credit card
What's the fucking point, bros? Nothing sporty or nice ever lasts up here. There's a reason all the craigslist ads for sports cars scream "FLORIDA OWNED".

are you retarded

What's the point to life? A good AWD setup is plenty fun for drifty drifty white and slippy.

And if you don't have dickhead snow you can get around with RWD as well. Swapping your winter wheels on and off isn't any harder than changing the oil. Get a hydraulic floor jack if you're that big of a pussy.

>want to get a nice fun sports car
>realize that's a bad idea where winter is winter
>move to a warmer place, use 1 set of tires

The answer is 996.
>affordable because of purist autism
>fully galvanized body for maximum rust prevention
>that sweet RR layout traction
>AWD options available if you're really worried about RWD

No, just abnormally slow

Snow around here might as well be a glacier. Temperature sways cause ice buildup very quickly, snow is dumped 8 inches at a time regularly, blizzards are commonplace, the list goes on. Those aren't even the biggest problems. I can handle shitty weather. I can deal with new tires. But the rust...I doubt any car up here lasts longer than 15 years if it's not kept in a garage during the entire winter.

>I doubt any car up here lasts longer than 15 years
#YOLO

As a former 15+yo car owner you might as well switch after that long. 15yrs is plenty. Otherwise you wind up figuring out your a grouchy codger by the time you realize you'll never drive half the things you lusted after the whole time, and you're cursing out your rusted moldy piece of shit because it takes half an hour to start and the heat doesn't come on until after you already got to work.

Do what I do. Just buy a shit $500-800 POS fwd every fall as a winter banger, then rallycross it in spring and demo derby it in summer/fall, then rinse and repeat. I've used the same set of snow tires on 4 of them so far.
Last year I had a Tercel with 328k miles on it and a fire-damaged interior. This winter I'll use my GF's old CRX since she's getting a 'new' car. It's rotted out and has blown shocks and it drinks a quart of oil every 500 miles, and the sus bushings are BTFO

Like putting nursing home inhabitants on oxygen into the boxing ring. Beautiful.

I drove a Genesis coupe (manual rwd) all year round when I lived in Alaska. can count on 1 hand how many times I actually got stuck. git gud tires and git gud driving faggot.

>need to get different tires every 6 months
Changing a set of wheels every 6 months shouldn't be too hard
>will accumulate rust and rot out within 10 years tops regardless of what you do
Proper rust proofing and keeping it clean will make it last pretty much eternally
>RWD is inherently less stable in snow than FWD or AWD given the same tires
True, but that doesn't mean that RWD is not sufficient or unsafe in those conditions

It is. The way I look at it, the car is gonna die soon either way, so it may as well go out in a blaze of glory.

Me and some bros all take our bangers and do time-attack rallies on logging roads once the snow clears.

explain pic

What's there to explain? Porsche driver can't into ice track, the end.

Local ice track. Porsche driver fucked up

Drive a truck during the winter and garage the sports car. It's not worth wrecking a nice car during the winter.

>spend savings on a fun car
>cabt drive it 6 months/year
not worth senpai

Why would you wreck it?

Hence why most people drive trucks and crossovers. Sports cars are impractical.

It only takes one little fuckup to wind up in the ditch or wrapped around a tree. Even sliding a car into a curb can be a costly fix. That's if some Asian with bald all seasons doesn't write your car off first. If you live anywhere with salt or MgCl you're car literally dies a little every time you drive it.

>live in a shit place
>blame the car for your problems

really [spoiler]________[/spoiler] my [spoiler]_______[/spoiler].

I'd rather be in a car than a truck in the winter unless I had to brave feet of unplowed snow.

written like a true busrider

No you wouldn't. I can tell you've never driven in snow. They don't take cars to the North Pole...

All this projection...

>feet of unplowed snow
I'll take my car, thanks. When additional ground clearance is not required, it eats snow for breakfast.

>accident
Don't be retarded, know your terrain and be properly equipped. Accidents can always happen, but thats why we have insurance; and a lot of accidents can be avoided with you paying attention - even when you're not at fault in anyway

I get what you're trying to say; our winters are one of the bigger reasons why I sold my Mercedes and bought a 4x4 pickup. Still, I never felt that an RWD car was dangerous or had any lack of grip under normal circumstances, and I've never felt in a Porsche 911, a BMW X5 or a shitty little Skoda.

If I was so scared of driving something because it might be above-average costly to fix after an accident then I wouldn't want to own that car anyways
>rust
Proof and keep it clean

Fuck the cheapest 996 we can get in Aussieland is $25k meanwhile on craigslist there $8k or $12k. They look like hardtop boxsters with a body kit.

Just buy a Prius lol.

Even if you aren't retarded the other people on the road ARE. Yeah the car is insured if some dumbass hits you. I'm just saying it's not worth dropping your life savings on a sports car aka "your baby" and driving it during winter.

The type of terrain dictates weather you need 4x4 or not. If you live somewhere flat rwd is fine. Mountain passes and such get a little scary with rwd unless you got some form of lsd and 300lbs in the trunk. Even getting going can suck on a steep hill and forget about any chance of getting out of a ditch.

Climate also has a lot to do with rust. If you live somewhere like Norway where it's winter for 6 months solid you won't have any rust issues. If you live somewhere where it's -30 one day, +5 the next day and back to -30 then rust will be a nightmare. That's why your truck looks brand new and Toyota's here need frame replacements as "regular maintenance".

Live somewhere as you describe

Own a nice rwd sports car, and an old 4wd truck.

Guess what gets put in the garage under a tarp at winter time.

Within weeks of buying an RWD funmobile one of my first experiences was going to a CVS to buy some emergency wrapping paper for Christmas
>slush was a little #hektic but I just need to get used to it
>wew ok maybe this isn't so bad
>gramps in his merc at the other side of the parking lot
>spins his wheels for about a minute trying to back out
>h-h-h-heh I'll be fine h-h-h-heh

Extra weight in the back++. Makes a difference even in the dry. Also remembering to turn off the T/C and rock it. AWD makes a man lazy.

Rear wheel drive is not less "stable" than FWD in the snow.
RWD will simply over steer when a FWD would understeer.
Oversteer scares passengers.
Understeer scares drivers.
I'd rather rip a sick skid around a bend than plow into the neighbors house.

>will accumulate rust and rot out within 10 years
Then buy a car, keep it for a couple years and sell it to someone else before it gets bad.

I had a longer reply written, managed to delete it... fuck.

Dailied a W202 Merc for three years. Mountain passes, forest roads, valley rises, the road up the mountain to work - never an issue as long as there wasnt a huge amount of heavy snow, or polished/wet snow on an incline. No weight in the back, no LSD. The going is tough when you absolutely need 4WD to make it

And let me tell you; rust is a huge issue here due to salt and gravel. Cars and trucks both newer and older than mine are written off daily due to failed inspections from rust. Mine has plenty of rust, but nothing noteable or dangerous for many years to come

Not "stable" per say - its more the general thing where you most commonly have more weight on the driven wheels and thay oversteer is often harder for the untrained driver to recover - even if they usually fail at both