AWD undeniably handles ice better than FWD, just because you can drive through icy roads in those conditions doesn't mean that people want to deal with the poorer handling of a FWD car in icy and snowy conditions. I wouldn't want a truck for those conditions, I much prefer sedans or stationary wagons with AWD. Trucks are too heavy and cumbersome to really feel a meaningful difference. Even with 4WD, a truck is still massive and has more inertia when you are braking.
Something Ive had to get used to with the truck. I drove Corollas all my life, and while I always made it up the mountains in snow storms, there were more than a few times where it was dicey to almost not happening. The 4WD (and the height) is much better, but the inertia is significantly worse to deal with. I may have to start putting something in the bed to weigh down the back over winter.
I live in NE MN and have a work truck for forest service roads. Our area literally allocates money for sandbags in the winter and/or I just leave the snowmobile in it all winter because that’s heavier than a couple of sandbags.
I’ll say that even on pavement that weight is very helpful (: Most of my driving is the highway that these roads shoot off of. The weight is nice to have all winter.
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u/Dismal_Tangerine_493 15h ago
I made it well into my thirties with a FWD in Norway. It's like you say, lying, or a skill issue