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Originally Posted by supafamous
Besides ride height, SUVs have no inherent advantages over a regular car in the snow. If anything the fact that they stop and turn worse makes them need winter tires more than a regular car.
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They're also heavier and harder to stop.
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Originally Posted by roverT
When I was traveling on highway one and even highway 99 in snow dumps, rarely did I see passenger “cars” in the ditch or crashed. It was usually SUVs and trucks. There is quite a confidence that an SUV appears to give but they do not have any entitlement to physics.
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It's almost always a truck or newer SUV. If it is a car it's usually a Subaru. Trucks have more clearance and more weight so they tend to make it further from the road before stopping because they tried to drive out of it.