The … at the end suggests you’re willing to explain why my car doesn’t work in the UK…
For 99% of the year an estate is much more practical, and much better specced. The other 1%, they still work…
My guess is Paul is he lives inner city and possibly in the south so hasn’t seen proper snow.
FAIL.
(Well, not quite)….
1) I lived in a small village on the hillside above Bethesda in Snowdonia and coped just fine with heavy snow and ice in a Mondeo and a Golf. I then moved to Belmont on the moors above Bolton just in time for a foot of snow, and whilst trick, the Golf (and my wife’s old fiesta) worked fine. Most of the Freelanders in the village didn’t move anywhere for a week for some reason.
2) The “well, not quite” bit: I now live in the south – very south (in Oz), and probably use the 4wd capabilities of our Freelander at least twice a month on unsurfaced roads and 4wd tracks. Even the most remote roads in Wales and England are tarmacced, unlike here
3) We came home for xmas last year, and once I’d worked out how to turn the traction control off in the hired Focus, that worked fine in the North West and Wales during the snow.
You did ask!