[Steve Dallas]

I would highly recommend getting good winter or all season tires. I ended up getting a second set of tires and would swap them out with the Pirelli's for fall/winter.

I ended up getting the Continenal Extreme DWS, which were great in both rain and some snowy conditions. Not much will help in ice, so consider not driving during those times when there are sheets of ice around.

I actually found that with the Continentals and traction control on...the car handled snow better than many of my previous cars. None of my previous cars were a nice AWD like an Audi or something...but still...