E60714

Well, I never said that, but I always liked the Miro M6's, but I always just assumed that they were for "i" models only. See, I'm just a kid, I gotta scrounge up the money myself this summer when I'm back from school, and on top of it all I don't know much about the technicalities of modding (i.e. do I get stuff painted, offsets, lowering, etc.) so I gotta make sure I know what I'm doing before I walk into a store to get it all done.

And when I used the search function, the thread with all the xi models didn't show up. But oh well, they all looked nice, but it seems most everyone with the M6s lowered their stuff, and that's a whole other discussion.

sdg1871

I agree (and I'm a 550 owner). It a simple matter of physics. 4WD simply has significantly more pulling power going up snowy hills as there are 4 contact patches as opposed to two. No traction control, regarding of how advanced it is, can give you the pulling power of 4 contact patches on a RWD (or FWD) automobile.

For me, who lives in NYC, there are no real serious hills here to worry about climbing in the winter. So, I'm totally fine with RWD and 4 dedicated snow tires in the winter (I've ridden Dunlop Wintersports M3's for years -- one of snow tires that still handles respectably in the dry weather while giving up a bit of ultimate snow traction to some of the more hard core dedicated snows). But if I lived in the snowy mountains of Vermont or Colorado, I'd have to get the Xi and its 4WD.