[s-cars] Quattro.... there is no substitute

[LL - NY]

What totally surpises me its that a Grand Cherokee could have such a suck
system.

THAT couldn't be "Trail-Rated" could it?

In spite of the Saabaru's instability (FWIW, it has an LSD rear diff,
T_rs_n, center, 50%/50% split) it still did really quite well in 9"+ of
broken fresh snow. One of the "car poolers" (read, wimp, they could've
driven in today) thought that there was really 12" of snow on the road,
broken. Somehow, I doubt I would've made it through that, nor would I have
tried.

LL - NY

On 2/15/07, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone on the list have significant experience with the BMW AWD
> systems-
> pre-xDrive and xDrive?
>
> BMW 3 series, 5 series, X3 and X5 are on my list, but I need to know more
> about the
> AWD and how it handles snow and ice.
>
> That Borg-Warner system sounds like utter crap. What's the point of AWD if
> you get stuck
> everywhere? Even the simple VC systems work better than that.
>
> Taka
>