I have to use 4x4, in town, at least once a year to get around. If I want/need to go anywhere out of town in the winter I wouldn't go UNLESS I went in a 4x4. Anyone who does is a fool. Towns can be 50-60 miles apart and ranch houses 10-30 depending on area. So, if you get stuck you just might die. Plus, if I go deer/elk/antelope hunting I need it to get to some places I couldn't get to otherwise.
Yea Ohio is mostly flat where I live, and there isn't more than 10 miles between towns. I know 4wd has it's place but to say it's required in this country isn't correct, if it was, 2wd vehicles wouldn't exist. Personally I've never been in a situation where I needed 4wd.
4WD may not be needed in places like Florida and California if you stay on the highways but many places like around my town, it's very necessary to get anywhere in bad weather. 4WD may not be necessary everywhere but I'd say it's just as incorrect to say that it's not needed anymore because we have paved roads. And no offense, but you are only 20, so you haven't been driving but for 4 or 5 years so there are probably a lot of things you haven't encountered yet, lol.
Paging Kendall to the 4 wheel drive isnt needed thread. Paging Kendall!!!!!
Hey Kendall, tell the inexperienced here amongst us how much snow you have in your driveway or yard right now and whether you would make it out some days if you didn't have 4wd.
I can guarantee I would not live where I do if I didn't own at least one 4wd vehicle. I have access to 3 of them by the way and even no worse than our winter was here this year I know of at least 5 times that 4wd was NEEDED in town. not nice to have, not i can make it with smart driving in 2wd, it was NEEDED if I wanted to make it anywhere.
Do not tell us it isnt needed in this country based on a handful of years of driving in flatlands Ohio.
Come back in 20 years or so after you have driven in every state in the lower 48 in all seasons of the year and see if you say the same thing
not meaning this reply to be mean or anything, seriously. I just can;t take your replies seriously based on your experience of likely just driving in Ohio. If I had never driven out of Kansas which is where I learned to drive, in the winter, I would likely have agreed with you.
Ok, first off, my first post was mostly meant in jest. I know 4wd has it's place and some people need it where they live. And yes, I may not have as much driving experience as the rest of you. But to say it's required to even live in this country is asinine. If that were true most of the population would be nothing more than corpses on the side of the road, grasping the steering wheels of their 2wd vehicles that are apparently useless and impossible to drive. I'm just saying millions of people survive every year without 4wd so it's obviously not as required as it's made out to be.
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