Random thoughts / planning to buy a car

[davester]

space-time wrote:
in my experience, snow tires are just as important, if not even more important that AWD.

That's kind of a duh! It's pointless to have an AWD vehicle without snow tires. I can assure you that an AWD vehicle with snow tires will get you many more places more safely than a 2WD vehicle with snow tires.