Troubleshooter: When all-wheel drive hurts more than it helps — via drivingdotca
Even skyrocketing prices and dwindling new vehicle inventories hasn’t dampened our appetite for all-wheel drive-equipped daily drivers. There’s a full generation of drivers out there that can’t comprehend how their parents survived any type of Canadian winter with only two-wheel drive and sometimes only two snow tires.
For most mass-consumed all-wheel drive vehicles, about the only plus you get in poor road conditions , is off-line acceleration. That’s it. No improved steering or braking. In fact, with the extra weight another drive axle system brings, braking distances for most types of road surfaces increase.
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