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We ended up replacing the crunched Audi with older Mercedes glk350 awd. Actually can't wait for it to snow to see how it does in the snow. Have had many MBs in the past when they were built like tanks but never had the newer 4matic ones. We'll see how it does. One of my favorite snow cars was an older Subaru Outback manual. At that time they had even 50% front/50% rear power distribution (newer ones are different). That thing was hilarious. On a deserted road on ice or snow you could hold it in pretty much an endless drift. Almost want to get another cheap one as a toy just for the giggle factor!The XC series is really nice. Had two XC-70s and one XC-90, but the ex would never let me drive them up into the mountains in the snow. The Volvo XCs are also a model you must maintain or they get painfully expensive. They're also a car that I regard as having a 150K mile lifetime ceiling. Back when I used to drive >30k miles a year I had three 240s that were well over 200K and still going when I sold them. No maintenance was the only thing that killed those cars.
The Audi was my ski car, and took that up into the mountains in snow storms confident it would do great. It never let me down.
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