All-Wheel-Drive Vehicles Grow in Popularity With Car Shoppers

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All-Wheel-Drive Vehicles Grow in Popularity With Car Shoppers

Crossovers with all-wheel-drive are increasingly popular with car shoppers, according to Edmunds and industry statistics.

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shatner

The first winter storm, and all the new 4wd owners are stuck after skidding off the road. Yes all cars have 4 wheel braking, 4wd is no miracle solution for any icy road once you get going.

reminder

I have nearly 30 years of experience driving in the upstate NY. No substitute for being 'smooth'. Slow down, put on dedicated snow tires, pay attention to the feeling in the seat of your pants.
I drove for years many rear drive cars well before anti-lock brakes and stability control were invented. Those new electronic nannies are excellent at saving your bacon, but I credit my time without the technology in forcing me to become a more skilled driver. Get skilled or get wrecked. Peace.

financeman2

I have many years of experience driving rear and front wheel drive vehicles in adverse conditions and I have only occasionally wanted or needed AWD (deep snow). Although snow tires can generally alleviated the need for AWD, I enjoy the feature and (for me) eliminates the needs to switch to snow tires in the winter. True it does not help you stop, but it does provide a clear advantage when driving in deep snow or moving and control in slick conditions.

redgeminipa

News like this is good news for anyone living in the snow belt. As more AWD/4WD vehicles are saturating the market, it should help drive down some of the artificial fall/winter price increases for those models on the used market. We've been fairly lucky so far this winter here in PA, but we usually get hit hardest in January through March... as it's snowing pretty good right now as I'm typing this. So much for snow on Christmas... haha.