Ah! The sweet sound of SUV wars on the list. Bear with us
folks--it'll eventually die down again.
Now for my input: We bought a hybrid type of SUV/Minivan: 4WD
MPV. Love it for the space, traction in wintertime (we finally
got an inch of snow here) and general comfort. Hate it for the
build-quality and lack of industrial strengthness. It just
passed 100,000 miles the other day. Wife's ready to trade it
in. On what, you ask? Another RED Jeep Cherokee. We'd be the
laughingstock of the neighborhood. After all, we joked about
our neighbors that have identical his and her maroon Plymouth
Voyagers.
Of course, it means that my RED Jeep Cherokee would remain a
Zuiko carrier. :)
Now onto the subject of icy roads. It really got nasty here the
other night. We didn't get much snow, but the roads built up a
1-2 inch layer of ice. The Cherokee got around extremely well.
So well that I'm downright gleeful! Unlike the front-wheel
drive wonder-buckets with auntilock breaks, this thing turned
corners slowing or accelerating (FWD cars go straight forward
into oncoming traffic or downhill when wheel-spinning), had
extremely predictable stopping and never gave me a bit of
problem on the ice.
I piled the family into the Jeep and ventured forth into the
night terrorizing empty parking lots (take it out of 4wd for
really wild cookies) and three-foot snow drifts. Sucked so much
snow into the airfilter during one 300 ft backwards slide that
the engine almost stopped. Had a riot in the ice-glazed Walmart
parking lot until we saw security coming our way. Fortunately,
we were able to outrun their FWD car.
AG-zoom zoom zoom-Schnozz
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