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I do about 5000 miles a year, live in the country and require a 4-wheel-drive during snow conditions. You have mentioned the Dacia. Would I be better off buying a new Dacia or a 2-year-old Honda CR-V,...
Reading the comments by TP questioning your experience with winter tyres prompted me to send you my thoughts. Having owned a 4x4 Volkswagen Tiguan and feeling this would be the answer to snowy conditions,...
My Toyota RAV4 has been a good and reliable servant for the last ten years but, at 110,000 miles, it’s beginning to creak a bit, so I'm thinking about a replacement. We need space for passengers and for...
We have a Mazda 6 and, last week, we bought eight acres of land for livestock farming, so we now need a vehicle capable of pulling a stock trailer, negotiating tracks and carrying loads such as bales of...
My daughter needs a car that will cope with an untreated hill in snow but is small enough to be easily parked. Is there a smallish, reliable four-wheel drive car?
I am a lady driver living in the country side - up a mountain with a small narrow laneway up to the house. Conditions in winter are wet, mucky and sometimes a week or two of snow and ice. There are...
My Fiat dealer tells me that Fiat Panda 4x4 are no longer made. Are there any alternatives?
You write that a FWD car on winter tyres is better than a 4WD car on summer tyres. Clearly you have little experience of driving in the snow and ice and it’s flat where you live. In Devon there are lanes...
We have a 2010 Skoda Fabia and a 1999 Subaru Justy but we need to replace these with just one car. We live in a forest and every winter have to drive on icy roads, so we need a 4WD. My Justy is super on...
I need to replace my LDV Maxus with a vehicle that is versatile and cost effective to buy, run and repair. I need a large amount of boot space and I also tow a four-berth caravan. A 4WD option would be...