I live in Canada and I will take a 2WD car with good winter tires on it over an AWD 'crossover SUV' with crappy tires any day. True 4WD with high clearance is

I live in Canada and I will take a 2WD car with good winter tires on it over an AWD 'crossover SUV' with crappy tires any day. True 4WD with high clearance is needed for some unpaved mountain roads, but only a vanishingly small number of people need that.