Top 10 All-Wheel-Drive Vehicles - MSN Autos: "Winter Driving in Their DNA
Some carmakers have, by necessity, developed great expertise in adapting their products for winter driving. It had to come naturally to Swedish brands Saab and Volvo, for instance, whose engineers developed cars in a climate where temperatures dip below freezing for much of the year, and where snow and ice are the rule, not the exception"
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t was by no means a simple matter of traction, since both automakers, now American-owned (Saab by GM and Volvo by Ford), came to all-wheel-drive quite recently.Saab and Volvo took great care in equipping their cars with fast and powerful heating and defrosting systems, wipers that could take the abuse of minus-30-degree temperatures and even carpets that could contain and endure salty slush and all the filth that winter in the real world brings.
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