4x4 2WD the same as any other not 4x4 car?

OddballJamie

fivetide wrote: »

Worth noting that when you are in it, you don't have to actually look at it!

Until you catch a glimpse in a shop window and get a bit of sick in the back of your throat.

Gloomendoom

Iceweasel wrote: »

I think a lot of owners of these pseudo 4x4s which are in reality 2WD will get a surprise come the snow.

Yes, we had a hell of a surprise... just how good it really was.

fivetide

OddballJamie wrote: »

Until you catch a glimpse in a shop window and get a bit of sick in the back of your throat.

Safety feature*.

Stops you window shopping and makes you concentrate on the road.

Functionality first seen in the Ford Scorpio :beer:

*may be lies.

ILW

Any wrote: »

And advert saying "Kia Sportage 4x4 2WD" as they mostly are on Autotrader is confusing.. That is why I am asking if I am missing something!!

I would suggest that description would be illegal. 4x4 means 4WD!

Mankysteve

OddballJamie wrote: »

Until you catch a glimpse in a shop window and get a bit of sick in the back of your throat.

Is it bad I quite like look of Yeti's even though I don't like SUVs. I would say

Rwdrive<2wd on standard wheel<4x4 on standard tyres<2wd on winter tyres<4x4 on winter tyres.

notanewuser

Mankysteve wrote: »

I would say

Rwdrive<2wd on standard wheel<4x4 on standard tyres<2wd on winter tyres<4x4 on winter tyres.

I agree, but I'd add "!!!! driver<" to the beginning.

DCodd

OddballJamie wrote: »

Good video about the Yeti in the snow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l2cMlNRX_A

I have to say that I find Autocar's comparative tests to be regularly flawed. It seems to me that many times they apprear to have a result in mind before the test and set the test up to produce that desired result.

I would say though that the correct tyres for any occasion far out perform any technology.

harveybobbles

Skoda Octavia 4x4. Best of both worlds: running costs of a car, but has 4x4 for the times you need it (ie, going up hill and around a corner on a frosty morning..)

almillar

Type of vehicle = off roader, or maybe soft roader
Driven wheels - 4WD, 4x4, 2WD
My wife's car is four wheel drive, but it is NOT an off roader!

gilbert_and_sullivan

Your budget puts you nicely into a Subaru Forester, of which there is a Diesel version.

Full time 4WD, simple proper system that has stood the test of time almost unchanged, so benefits you the other 350 odd days when it doesn't snow with precise unstickable grip.