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4x4
Hello,
Last friday, we received in Montreal over 43 cm of snow in less than 4 hours. On my way to work, in my 4 wheel drive X-Trail, I had no problems going through the worst snow storm in 34 years!!! I stoped to help push cars that had buried themselves in the snow. They were all subcompacts, compacts, intermediate cars, wagons, mini vans with only 2 wheels for traction (actually only one cause as soon as you start to slip only one wheel spins) ect... At one place on about a 200 metre stretch of road there were no less than 8 cars jammed in the snow. In the Xtrail though it was like any other day on the road. Some places the snow plow had created a 1 metre high snow bank. Drove over/through it without a problem. It was actuallt too easy. At stop lights, every 2 wheel drive car would slip and slide and move forward extremely slowly through the intersection (when they could move forward). In my 4 wheel drive XTrail I just pushed the gas and in two seconds I was going 50 km/h leaving behind everybody else still imobile at the light. On one hill, cars weren't even able to go up because it was to slippery. Cars were actually slipping backwards (ouch!). It was a mess. I just went to the side and plowed through over 50 cm of snow like it was summer and went to work. A friend of mine who has a 2 wheel drive SUV (saturn) had to go down the hill backwards and then he acclerated as much as he could at the bottom of the hill to get some momentum. At the top of the hill he ran through a red light cause if he had stopped, he would have just slipped back down that hill. I swear, I'm never buying anything else but a 4 wheel drive car. I had the most fun you can legally have with a car that day while it was hell for 95% of the rest of the people. BRING ON THE SNOW, MUD, GRAVEL, RAIN AND WHATEVER ELSE MOTHER NATURE HAS IN MIND!!!
P.s. Please drive responsibly with a 4x4. While they are superior at accelerating, they don't brake or handle any better. So go slow while everybody else is slow to go!
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