Ouch! I've never killed a tire that way, I've only nailed them. I guess you can count yourself lucky that it wasn't a taller island that could have broken your front clip.
So you guys down South are getting snow? Ain't it fun!? We finally got a couple good days here (we're WAY under for the year) and I discovered my new car's switchable personalities:
Normal: HolyCrapTheBackEndIsComingOutBRAAAAAKES. Stability control saves the day and tugs the appropriate wheel hard to stop the skid, and often the car. Damn.
DTC ("sport" mode): Hey! Sporty slide, Boss! WheeeeeeWHOA! TOO MUCH! <tap tap tap on the brakes to tuck the car in> There. Now don't go so nuts next time, you almost spun!
OFF: I bet you can't hold a 45 degree drift on a straight! WOOOOOOO! OK, next time try 60 degrees!
This car is even easier to hold in a slide than my Legacy was. Kinda like is true in Forza, I suspect the open diffs make this car easier to keep traction on the edge, because one wheel will happily spin if you apply too much power, making traction loss predictable. With sufficient snow I can easily hold it in a pretty severe slide with only minor wheel adjustments. My record from my limited play time (ie: no baby in the car) is 45 degrees at 20mph for half a residential block. It handles left-right transitions pretty well too so long as you don't feed it gas until the car stops its pendulum swing into the second slide.
Ahem. Careful out there. Snow is dangerous.
