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Seems i've been running into a number of owners lately... last night (again on Milwaukee near Lake Cook): < 2005 Red/Maroon Legacy Sedan w/ Spoiler 2005+ White Legacy Wagon (visibility was bad, couldn't see much else)

Spotted two pretty ladies today, strangely within 5 minutes of each other (around Milwaukee / Lake Cook Road): '08 Dark Grey Metallic w/ Spoiler - Parked at a Panera Bread '05-'07 Black - Passed me while I was turning, had some sort of roof/ski rack. Honked at the Black one, but don't think they saw me

I can't be sure if the weather conditions/icing that you describe could be compared to the relatively "light" winter weather we've had since I moved to the area, but I can say (thankfully) that neither my '05, or my recently purchased '08 have experienced this "oscillation" that you and other have described. You can certainly make the car "tail-happy", but even then it is quite controllable. On the other hand, I have a tendency to drive very slow in wintery weather, especially if I know conditions call for icing on the road. Regardless of what the other drivers are doing, i'll hold my speed at a level *below* what I feel is safe, and if the other drivers don't like it, too bad... they are free to pass me, and I'll be free to laugh at them when they are wrapped around a tree (or other road hazard). As for some comments regarding traction control... my brief experience with the spec.B's (VDC they call it?) was somewhat unexpected, and certainly unsettling. Given the choice (and thankfully there is one), I prefer to turn it off... Of course, take what I have to say with a grain of salt... I was the idiot that was stuck out in 6" snowfall on new years in a fairly new car riding on RE050's (That was one white-knuckled experience I don't want to repeat)