I live south of the river in MN, and I like most minnesotans was waiting very patiently for that snow to come last saturday. I left work that night at 10pm, and with the snow readily accumulating, started the car, began brushing the snow off, and then spent the next 25 minutes pushing my co-worker's cars out. As the last car left the parking lot, they all waited to see what i would do. And then i slowly began creeping out. With very little problem using my "$36,000 peace o' crap". This evening as I left a friend's apartment, I decided to play for a while as you know...they do such a GREAT job plowing apartment parking lots. Though I could not measure it, the depth of snow was enough for my 50 lb siberian husky to be swimming. My awd with traction control slowly made it through. I had to back up and rock it once, but we plowed through. To further test this theory Steamn, come look at my tracks going through the field at northview elementary in eagan. Don't give up on your vehicle quite yet.