Tires do make a difference.
I drive a Plymouth Grand voyager through western canadian winters on
four Yokohama high performance ice and snow tires.  No problems.

On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 04:47  PM, Automatic digest
processor wrote:

> Date:    Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:46:05 -0400
> From:    Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
> Subject: Re: Manual or AT?
>
> VW Corrado (automatic), Jaguar Vanden Plas SuperCharged (automatic)
> Neither is worth a damn in the snow or ice.
>
> On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 03:26  PM, Eric and Marica wrote:
>
>> I'm curious as to what you drive that wouldn't operate in the
>> cold?
>