Hey guys, sorry about the slow time to respond. I appreciate all your comments and it helps a lot to hear your thoughts.
To be honest it must be my lack of familiarity with the vehicle. To answer some of your questions the vehicle has the OEM Conti's which it sounds like may contribute. Vehicles around me were doing ok but that also depended on the drivers, it was a wet heavy snow so maybe it was compacting under the tires which worsened the feeling of slippage. In hearing from folks who have been in a lot of snow with these vehicles I agree with Rostov that it may be lack of experience with the Rover. Hopefully we'll get more snow so I can experiment more and post an update.
It just really felt different moving from the Bimmer that handled very differently with the "XDrive"... But as many of you pointed out this is a very different vehicle and I can't wait to go off-roading this summer with it!!
To be honest it must be my lack of familiarity with the vehicle. To answer some of your questions the vehicle has the OEM Conti's which it sounds like may contribute. Vehicles around me were doing ok but that also depended on the drivers, it was a wet heavy snow so maybe it was compacting under the tires which worsened the feeling of slippage. In hearing from folks who have been in a lot of snow with these vehicles I agree with Rostov that it may be lack of experience with the Rover. Hopefully we'll get more snow so I can experiment more and post an update.
It just really felt different moving from the Bimmer that handled very differently with the "XDrive"... But as many of you pointed out this is a very different vehicle and I can't wait to go off-roading this summer with it!!