Well, I decided that it was better to drive the car than use the battery tender to keep the battery alive, so what if it was a bit cool outside? This car always continues to amaze me with it performance, and extraordinary traction. I love this car! With outside temperatures at minus 14 degrees (see photo), I could still accelerate very briskly, and with nearly full throttle in 3rd and 4th gear. Proving again, that unless one is a complete, irresponsible moron (eg. Jeremy Clarkson), one can safely and enjoyably drive a 730 hp Ferrari all year round!! (I do have snow tires on it). The way the F1-Trac finds traction and puts down maximum power consistent with available traction is simply brilliant. No other cars traction control system even comes close. (By the way, my car is an F12, NOT an FF!). PS: Motor Trend today published a test of 3 really fast super saloons (4 door cars), and opened the discussion with the following flattering paragraph. (I still believe that more power is always better, so long as the car company finds ways to harness it and put it to the ground, and Ferrari has certainly mastered that. Power. Can you ever have enough? That's a question our predecessors spent a great deal of time discussing during the bad old days of the 1980s. These days, we Motor Trend scribes are often asking the opposite. Can a car have too much power? More than 99 percent of the time, the answer is hell, no -- the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta might be the world's single, overpowered example -- but as the months and years roll on by, the embarrassment of riches that constitutes a comparison test like this one is, well, totally embarrassing. Allow me to illustrate my point: We have three four-door sedans that make 1657 horsepower combined. For the sake of hyperbole, that's more power than a 1200-hp Bugatti Veyron Super Sport combined with the 455-hp Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. And we asked Porsche for the even more potent Panamera Turbo S, but that 570-hp monster wasn't revealed (in Tokyo, then Los Angeles) until one week after we concluded this especially power-dense test. (MT writer Mike Febbo wanted to name it "Menage a Torque.") Image Unavailable, Please Login
I have not actively driven it in snow, simply because there is no real need or point in doing so; ie. at best, it is then just another rear-wheel-drive car, with snow tires. I have however, frequently driven it between snow falls, when the roads are reasonably dry, and have been deeply impressed with the amount of traction it has, and hence the amount of enjoyment you can get from it (safely) even in winter time. I have driven through snow in my driveway, and found it to be at least as good as, or better than, any other rear drive car with wide tires.
