I currently have an octavia with 4wd and i have nothing bad to say about it other than the lack of hp (110hp)  and the manual gearbox make it kind of a nag to drive.

i have now set my eyes on a 2016 superb with 190hp and dsg gearbox and a lot of extras but i am a bit sceptical since it is a 2wd car

i live in Norway so the winters can be lots of snow but i have been driving 2wd cars for years and cant remember being stuck in the snow more than 2-3 times over the years.

anbody have a superb 2wd car and still are happy in the winter?

the superb is a big car but with all the xds,asr, esp or whatever it is called it shoud perform just as well  compared to other 2wd cars  in winter conditions?

 

sorry for the bad english....

 

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Firstly, your English is a whole lot better than my Norwegian. I have a 2wd 190 dsg and in the UK it is absolutely fine, though obviously we don't get the snow levels you do. You will doubtless be putting good winter tyres on it - many of my friends who drive 2wd Superbs in winter in the Czech Republic report it is fine. I drove a 2WD Octavia VRS in Prague in the snow on decent winter tyres - it was a complete non-event. And any snow that proper winter tyres can't overcome means it's probably not a driving day anyway... Go for it - you know you want to!

20 minutes ago, BriskodaJeff said:

Firstly, your English is a whole lot better than my Norwegian. I have a 2wd 190 dsg and in the UK it is absolutely fine, though obviously we don't get the snow levels you do. You will doubtless be putting good winter tyres on it - many of my friends who drive 2wd Superbs in winter in the Czech Republic report it is fine. I drove a 2WD Octavia VRS in Prague in the snow on decent winter tyres - it was a complete non-event. And any snow that proper winter tyres can't overcome means it's probably not a driving day anyway... Go for it - you know you want to!

yeah,guess you are right.

Have been driving mazda,toyota and ford with 2wd in the past and survived . guess all the talk about 4wd is stuck in my head.. 

 taking my octavia in for service next week so i am  going to test drive the superb. the superb has only been driven for 16000 km so it is a "new"car.

and yes, i want to :-)

My 2wd Superb (only a 150 TDI) has been absolutely great the last winter. Set of Pirelli Sottozeros on it, 235/45/18. Only issues I had was on a particularly steep hill of compacted, polished snow with a few inches on top - car in front of me ran out of momentum, I thought I'd give a hill start a go... didn't work! The other issue was getting on for a foot deep drift, I nearly beached it, and I imagine 4wd wouldn't have help in that scenario. Any slower I'd have probably got stuck, but it was certainly a tense moment as the ruts in the snow were determining my direction of travel, not the steering wheel! 

My 190dsg was very poor in the snow we had this year, probably worst car I have had although the front tyres are not winter tyres and they have covered 20,000miles so are down to about 3/4mm. I considered buying the 4wd version of the car when ordering mine, what stopped me was the higher price, higher road tax and less mpg. If I was buying it again I might go for the 4wd as the car can tend to scrabble the front wheels when trying to pull away quickly in the wet.

Good points from all!

i would be driving it on winter wheels with spikes as we normally do here but still little bit concerned since the superb is a big car and pretty low  so i guess it would be a hassel if  we get lots of snow.,

well, i have been looking at another car too so now i am brainstorming..... a 2015 BMW 320d GT Xdrive but it doesent have webasto so then it would be back to using the ice scraper... but it is a nice car.

 

On 01/05/2018 at 12:40, Speedman said:

My 190dsg was very poor in the snow we had this year, probably worst car I have had although the front tyres are not winter tyres and they have covered 20,000miles so are down to about 3/4mm. I considered buying the 4wd version of the car when ordering mine, what stopped me was the higher price, higher road tax and less mpg. If I was buying it again I might go for the 4wd as the car can tend to scrabble the front wheels when trying to pull away quickly in the wet.

 

If it's got the 18s on, it's not really much of a surprise. I can't imagine anything with anything wider than a 215 tyre on it will be much good in the snow. My old Avensis was 215s and I just about got away with it, that said my friend who drives a Nissan Juke with 215s on it has had a nightmare with it in the snow. I drove my mate's Passat Highline with 235 wide tyres on it, summer tyre - bloody awful in the snow. I can imagine not much grip and 190bhp going through an auto box is going to be pretty dicey.

 

As far as I'm concerned with the tyres, it's not the getting going that bothers me, it's the stopping and going round corners which is of interest to me! 

 

Dude, we are drivng rear wheel drive cars here in winter. My city is second most cold capital in the world. I persenally drove rear wheel drive for 3 year in winter, and somehow survived. So, with front wheel drive you will definitely have no problem. But this is all about city, highway driving. Offroad would be a different story.

I doubt you *need* 4wd if you have proper tyres etc in the winter. It does make getting away quickly in the dry summer more fun though, no wheelspin, just go. I could wheelspin my old 172ps Vectra so when we got the Superb and I wanted petrol I was 'forced' to get a 280.....

You'll be fine with 2WD. 

I've got the 4x4 but it's just for the convenience of knowing that I've more grip then I need

The only real occasions when I've needed 4x4 is the ones where I out of free will put myself and my car in that situation... But - I do like to accelerate effortless when starting from a red light in winter