Sky14
November 22, 2008, 10:07am
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AWD is good for preventing yourself from getting stuck mainly, and off the line acceleration. Certain handling pluses and minuses could be argued, but that’s aside from the point. It’s not going to affect your braking.
I did some extensive testing the other night with my S4 (AWD currently wearing Yokohama performance all-seasons for now) and a friend’s Cobalt SS turbo (FWD with 4 new General Altimax winter tires).
After countless emergency brake tests from 35km/h - 0, it became clear he could consistently stop with 1/3 the braking distance. No matter what kind of threshold or mad-slam-ABS we’d do the results were the same. To be expected, but the gap was much bigger than i’d thought.
But the surprise was he could get off the line with FWD faster than I could with AWD.
I’ve always preached using winters, but wow, I gotta get my winters ASAP!
how u like your s4? was it worth it?
