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>2wd means if one of your drive wheels get a little bit slippy you loose all traction.
Yeah, unless you have lockers. Whichyou can get for just about any car, a buddy of mine even had some in his Skoda Octavia.
>4wd you still have traction on atleast one, maybe two.
Lol, take any 4wd, lift up one tire, and see how much traction you get without lockers. 4wd should really be called 1wd.
>2wd only has road gearing so you end up going too fast
Bullshit. On an offroad car, 2wd has exactly the same gears as 4wd, you just don't engage the front wheels (whether by dual-stick transmission or by not locking the hubs, depending on the car). On a road car, 1st gear is usually still short enough for trails, and if you're driving a van (or any car designed for heavy loads, really) you might even need to start in 2nd gear. On the few occasions where you really need to go even slower, you just use the clutch. Unless you're a retard driving automatic, I guess.
And again: I've taken a Golf IV with no lockers through dozens of trails, usually while full of beehives, with no damage, before I got a landcruiser. And neither on that LJ nor on my Suzuki have I ever needed the 4wd on trail, only ever for actual offroad. Maybe YOU can't handle a 2wd on a dirt trail, but that's more of a skill issue.

tl;dr: Don't listen to this guy, OP. Considering that he's retarded enough to confuse the number of driven wheels with the gear ratio, I doubt he's ever driven offroad at all.

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