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Originally Posted by Armen52
I did a lot of reading about this on some other boards and it seems that the consensus is that even if you've got all-wheel drive, if you are dealing with heavy amounts of snow, you should have winter/snow tires. In which case it also seems to be agreed that properly equipped (smaller rims and snow tires) RWD cars do just about as well in the snow.
I was worried about this as I'm moving to Seattle where they experience some snow for a short time in the winter.
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Armen brings up a good point, your tires are the points of contact with the road, it doesn't matter if you have 8 wheels (and 8-wheel-drive on your car) if the tires can't keep traction properly. Jon, if you're not dealing with a crazy amount of snow just get the non-AWD, some cheap steel wheels and the best snow tires out there (blizzaks) and you'll be fine. Tirerack.com sells steel wheel/snow tire packages for the e46 and I'm sure they'll have the same for the e90 shortly after it comes out.