[Vwdiesel] TDI Passet 4 motion

[James Hansen]

Stephen Kraus wrote:
> Its amazing what AWD and 4WD vehicles can do, we were driving through
> Kentucky and while all these SUVs and huge trucks could grip the snow laden
> roads, those little AWD Subarus just drove on by us....
> 

Put a decent set of winter tires on a front drive car, and you drive 
right beside them, nothing amazing at all really. Blizzak is one good 
one.  Winter tires are for winter, all seasons are for summer.
AWD is a very expensive way to get traction when a set of tires would do 
the job.  I've seen many wrecks occur as a result of driving mistakes 
caused specifically because the driver had an AWD vehicle.  It's no 
mystery why ESP is being mandated in suvs.

-james (who lives in the land of ice and snow)