Thoughts? I live in a wintery biome so having awd gives me a bit of peace of mind

  • Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Depends where you live with lots of snow. If you’re not emergency personnel and you live in a major metropolitan area with good salting and plowing? You absolutely do not need AWD. If you’re like in the GTA or the Chicago sprawl you’ll be fine - make sure to pick up your groceries the day before the blizzard. Any day where the roads are bad-enough to need an all-terrain vehicle, everything will be closed anyways. The only urban places I’d be tempted by AWD would be the Prairies Provinces, where they sometimes get snow below -10C (usually it’s bone dry here in Ontario when it gets below -10C) and salt can’t melt that so they just dump in some grit and hope. At least it’s pretty flat there.

    However, if you live rural? Absolutely. My in-laws live in a hilly rural area and I’ve tried visiting them in an FWD minivan in the winter. Do not recommend.

    • QuinceDaPence@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I’ve needed AWD in Houston in the summer to get up driveways because of a thin film of oil or some gravel.

      And rural driveawys in hilly areas.