well i see that chery is doing very good at the middle east and africa with +40 degrees, so i wonder how i could perform in -40degress in ice and snow. and this site gave me the answer.
http://www.auto-dealer.ru/articles/event.php?id=7404
Heres some pics, the site is in russian it would be nice if someone could translate it.
http://www.auto-dealer.ru/image_data/weekevents/ch_a_051221_big.jpg
http://www.auto-dealer.ru/image_data/weekevents/7404/ch_a_051221_04.jpg
http://www.auto-dealer.ru/image_data/weekevents/7404/ch_a_051221_08.jpg
http://www.auto-dealer.ru/image_data/weekevents/7404/ch_a_051221_11.jpg

http://www.auto-dealer.ru/image_data/weekevents/7404/ch_a_051221_18.jpg
http://www.auto-dealer.ru/image_data/weekevents/7404/ch_a_051221_19.jpg
http://www.auto-dealer.ru/image_data/weekevents/7404/ch_a_051221_20.jpg
http://www.auto-dealer.ru/image_data/weekevents/7404/ch_a_051221_21.jpg

Funny how the reverse gear is on the left side for this 5 speed manual, most of the manual cars i drove before (cobalt, civic etc) have the reverse on the right.
http://www.auto-dealer.ru/image_data/weekevents/7404/ch_a_051221_26.jpg
http://www.mustangsplus.com/images/07171sm.jpg

Funny how the reverse gear is on the left side for this 5 speed manual, most of the manual cars i drove before (cobalt, civic etc) have the reverse on the right.
A lot of german cars (BMW, Porsche, Audi) have reverse next to first.

Cold weather testing is pretty much a requirment nowadays. There's a place somewhere in Scandinavia whose entire economy is based on car companies going there to do their testing.

Babelfish can translate anything :)

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ru_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.autorating.ru%2four_test_ar ticle.php%3fid%3d93


Another test:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=ru_en&trurl=http://www.autorating.ru/test_article.php?id=2859