It's a question asked by many automobile owners living in a number of regions around the world with harsh winters and lots of snow; would you be better off with a front-wheel drive (FWD) model fitted with winter tires that you can swap once the weather warms up, or an all-wheel drive (AWD) vehicle with regular rubber?
The difference in pricing between winter tires and the option of all-wheel drive on a FWD car varies among automakers and even individual models, though, you should keep in mind that a second set of tires can potentially extend the life of your standard wheels.
Britain's Autocar magazine sought to find an answer to the aforementioned question by comparing two otherwise identical, 110hp diesel-powered Skoda Yeti crossovers. We suspect that most of you will know the outcome, but the tests do reveal some interesting facts.
9 Comments:
A test with no relevent info. Were the regular tires "all season" as is the normal tire supplied in northern countries? What were the tires tested.......top of the line winter tires vs lo-end, factory installed rubber?
Bah. Put Nokian WRG2 tires on an AWD SUV, and you'll be much better off. These Nokian tires are all season M + S and have the severe winter rating.
This "winter tyres" doesn't look like typical winters, the tread is strange for me. I saw lot of M+S rubbers and nothing was similar to those.
Or, you could go with a 4WD (AWD) with winter tries (or a good set of all season tires) and beat out the FWD vehicle in every test.
That snow was only a couple inches, try the snow here in Utah that has ice under it where brakes don't really work and you just slide.
People just need good tires, traction control, and knowing how to use there ABS on the light snow, on heavy snow snow tires are needed.
pointless test... in the uk the biggest issue in snowy conditions is getting up inclines. they should have tested for that.
how about a test with winter tires on a 4WD
What about the most ideal option? That would be to have winter tires on an AWD car. Having that would have completed the comparison.
When You live in countries like England I think decent all-season tires would be a better choice, when You don't want to buy winter ones and the probably would win in this comparison with the FWD.
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