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If you are just trying to stop your car, tires is all that matters, AWD will not help, this is agreed upon.
But "safer" with AWD does matter when you are trying to accelerate off ice or snow, especially on on/off ramps during rush hour, this happened several times to me in my C63, you are stopped on a ramp going up hill in traffic, you got unlucky and your rear tires are on ice, you try to go and just slide backwards (possibly into another car) or off to the left into another car! AWD could have prevented that by having other tires grip and get you going straight. This is an instance where all season tires with AWD could get you out of a jam better than snow tires on RWD!
Like I said in my previous post we will always use the combo of Snow tires and AWD so the all season tire vs snow tire debate does not apply with my decision to buy AWD or not.
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