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Awd useless. Waste of time. Why did i bother!

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Old Feb 1st, 2016, 00:43   #13
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been up in the alps many times in proper snow - as in metres of it - and the truth is, tyres are the biggest enabler. They enable bad drivers to go fast enough to ram their BMW X6 in a ditch (O how we laughed) and they enable lost English men to get through fresh snow in their V8 RWD mercedes. Snow is a slightly odd situation for AWD vehicles anyway - they do best in mud and rain when the traction is altered but not entirely removed, anyway.

Best snow car I drove up there was a little Skoda hire car a couple of years ago. Very grunty little 1.2L engine with a turbo, driving winter-tyred FWD. Kept going past Teslas spinning their tiny low-profile tyres like crazy! I don't think anyojne makes winter tyres for those things...
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