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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
I recently sold my Subaru, after driving them for nearly 18 years. I know perfectly well that with the wheel drive, I am safer in cold, icy, snowy weather. This may be because of my driving skills, but I have on several occasions been able to speed up and utilize the AWD to escape out of a bad spot. I recently drifted into an intersection to avoid a car that slid through a red light, and then going sideways I was able to make the corner (something every AWD owner should practice!!!). In a front wheel drive car, my back end would have swung around and spun out. I also make it up every hill when every other car was stuck.
When coming from a dead stop on ice, the AWD distributes the weight to all tires, thus decreasing the dependency on just the front tires to pull. I can tell the difference, and routinely switch between AWD and FW cars.
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That's pretty much my thoughts on 4WD. It helps with take offs, it helps when going up hills, it helps when turning, and it helps when you hit ice and begin to lose control. And it's fun in the mud.
I will never buy a truck that doesn't have 4x4, and if I ever buy a car, it'll either be AWD or FWD. I had RWD in an old Cutlass, and while it was fun for an 18 year old, I'm a little more concerned with getting to where I'm going these days. At least with FWD you have the weight of the engine over the propelling wheels. You might not have the same ability to take off, but it beats the living hell out of RWD. RWD is for sports cars, and sports cars belong in the garage on days like today.