Snowfun with the Subaru Impreza – experiences in the border area Hello, Friday evening I had a special experience with a Subaru Impreza 2.0 GX (Bj ca. 1998, 65,000km) I live here near Annaberg-Buchholz, Erzgebirge. Already on Friday afternoon the B95 had to be closed. Only because of an accident, stuck school bus and then because of extreme snow drifts. The winter service then does not follow with rooms and gives up the road. The whole thing was heated by hurricane-like wind. From work home I went along the valleys with my Volvo FWD only on detours. Friday evening I was then invited at a party and as I wanted to have a drink, I let myself drive from my girlfriend’s parents. They have an impreza, see above. Since with me also the Subaru genes are quite dominant I drove to it myself immediately. On our doorstep is already a beautiful mountain with snow-covered Of course, I couldn’t let it stop at the steepest part to see how to get away. Well, without problems and without spinning wheels. Even with snow chains I would have managed with my Volvo only with spinning wheels, the car is also much too heavy… Since we didn’t know if the B95 was free again, we just tried it. And look, the BGS, the otherwise cross-sectioned T4 synchro and blue light cut the streets off. The view was against zero, the left side windows were closed already, towards the front one also saw nothing more, sight maybe 2 meters and that without overlaying). To the front everything was white, one could not see whether the snow was high at the front or not. So I oriented myself to the right side panel. I was not able to see whether the snow was high at the front or not. The mood of the ladies on the back seat became increasingly worse and the call for “turn around” became louder. But I’m sitting in an Impreza 4WD AND I WANT TO KNOW IT NOW!!!! Behind us you can see some light cones of other cars that follow us – but not for long. The situation became increasingly worse. Sometimes the car can’t be steered anymore, but it can’t be steered anymore. I don’t trust myself anymore, because I’m afraid to stay stuck. Sometimes there are snow tracks, which are so high that snow fragments fly over the bonnet (these were the traces of the recovery of a school bus through the THW). So slowly I have doubts whether the road should not have been closed after all. So we drive on, 2nd gear, – yes not stop but through. The car drives half-cross in places, is no longer steerable. , view only to the right side out – but we still drive. After 200m then a snow milling machine comes to us, at least I aim at the milling machine to the right, now also the snow at the front over the car to the right – view for a few meters is really zero now. I try to drive in the track, which has cleared the milling machine, since I see nothing, I can not find it either. After hunting meters I come to the other end of the road barrier, there the BGS has everything ripped away One policeman stopped us, asked what we were doing (he didn’t know that his colleagues hadn’t regressed the road at the other end), another shouted astonished “where did the car come from??” the next day we learned that all the cars that came after us were stuck, which were then pulled out by THW with MAN four-wheel truck again ) Believe me people, that evening I would have signed a purchase contract for a Subaru. Unfortunately it had a Subaru- I have been waiting for a call back for 3 weeks. It’s interesting for an FWD driver to experience what an all-wheeler can do. I’m still surprised that the Impreza isn’t so close. Probably it’s the spoiler, the car is such a special edition in the GT look (except for the missing air hat). For all those who live in the flatland and will never experience such a thing really miss what Ciao, Eric, PS: the federal road is still fully closed, it snows and still blows like hell.