ℬête Noire
Active Member
I doubt that. I live in a temperate rain forest. You don't get more, or heavier, rains than here unless you're talking about hurricanes and if so no one is driving unless to leave.
I'm from Western Canada, I'm quite aware of the Rockies' and BC climate (well, I've not been up the coast toward Prince Rupert and all, I've been past to Anchorage but that's different). The Gulf moisture, due to the heat, creates saturation that takes rain bursts here to theoretical limits. Don't get more total rain, and of course the lower mainland sees hard rains because of being coastal and the currents, but it's just another notch up in intensity here. Wipers not keeping up is the default, I've never gotten as wet as fast until I came here. *shrug*
As for that article and your comments, it's not outright wrong but I'll say (with a number of years of AWD/4WD) that I've found differing take. It's not really "handling", so I don't disagree with them on that per se, it's maybe better put as correction by acceleration. The only trouble I've gotten in is the other way around, having switched off front wheels to save rubber I had forgotten to turn them back on at an appropriate juncture. D'oh.