Semantics: 4WD is not AWD

When language is misused, people tend to get confused and misled. One example of this is the way “4WD” is now being regularly used to describe that which isn’t. Or rather, wasn’t historically speaking. Before the rise of the Universal Transportation Appliance or UTA, the car-based crossover “SUV” (in air fingers quotes because that’s another example […]

AWD Extraneous

Advertising can be described as the art of selling people stuff they don’t really need by convincing them of its urgent necessity. All-wheel-drive is an excellent for-instance. Something like two-thirds of all new vehicles have it or offer it. Exclusively rear-drive or front-drive cars are very much in the minority even though two-thirds of the […]