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Originally Posted by Taylor95
Ok isn't good enough for many places in the country, including where I live. A consideration I make when purchasing a vehicle is how it will handle on snow packed roads. Many here don't think of that, and that results in missed work and car accidents.
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But the standard of "good enough" is different for every person, and constantly changing. One person thinks a FWD car is just fine in the snow (myself), my neighbor with a Jeep thinks otherwise.
I'm in my father's camp on snow driving: it's maybe 5% vehicle, and 95% driver.
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Originally Posted by Xist
People purchase vehicles based on everything they might ever want to do with the car before they trade it in the next year.
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Exactly. My Civic did just fine on my (at the time) 56-mile commute in a blizzard, plowing through several inches of snow (and past many, many SUVs and trucks that had slid off the interstate and into drifts). But...what if it had snowed a foot?! 18"?! What if I needed to cross 3'+ of water?! What if I suddenly need to climb Uluru?! There will always be an imaginary "situation" that trumps whatever capabilities the device at hand has, and humans are very bad at assessing what is actually "good enough" for them. Heck, it's unthinkable today that anyone in America could live without a computer in their pocket at all times, when 20 years ago we seemed to get along just fine without them.