REALZEUS:

I find your responses pretty amusing. The fact that you live in a snow ladden country does not mean anything for the rest of the world. As Tiff Needel put it, I wouldn't want to carry the extra weight and losses of an AWD system just in case the weather gets silly. Fact is that in Britain for example it snows for a few days a year. Same in Southern Europe. Stop judging by Bavaria or Canada and generalising for the whole world. Snow over here is 1%, not the other way around! 

 

You know, there can be numerous things on the road that affect traction other than snow and ice. No road will have perfect surface.

How about sand on the road for those who lived in/around desert?

Then there could be oil on the road from someone with a leaky engine.