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Originally Posted by JCL
I think it is an academic point with limited real-world impact.
Once you go to a full time awd system instead of a part time awd system, and if you include some type of variable torque control front/rear, then everything after that tends to have a smaller difference IMO. Tires matter more than anything. It is possible to make a video demonstrating that just about any vehicle is superior to another in some specific and sometimes artificial circumstance, and most manufacturers have done it. While entertaining, it doesn't mean that there is any real-world advantage.
Given my interest in reliability, and having less complexity in a vehicle, I would go for an awd over a fwd or rwd if my application required it, and would accept a centre differential with some type of control. That is where it would stop, I wouldn't want DPC or whatever they call it next. I would spend the money I saved on a set of winter tires and wheels.
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Yeah but without another Dynamic whatever acronym, how will people be persuaded to buy the latest model? And where will the watercooler fodder come from?
FWIW, I think the most ridiculous thing about the X5 is that we have a reasonably good AWD system, an air suspension but without the raised ride height setting for more clearance and no low range in the transfer case. Oh maybe I'm forgetting that all it was designed to do is traverse the puddle in the parking lot on the way to Starbucks...but I digress...
