AWD vs 4WD: What's The Difference?

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Many trucks, SUVs, and cars come with all-wheel-drive or four-wheel-drive. The other drive configurations you will see a car have is either front-wheel-drive which is popular in economy focused cars or rear-wheel-drive which is common for many sports carts. Most of the times trucks and Jeeps are equipped with four-wheel-drive. Cars such as Subarus are equipped with all-wheel-drive. The only problem is most people think they’re the same thing, but they are in fact different. Let’s dive in and explain the difference between AWD and 4WD.

[SilverScarletSpider]

I love driving cars equipped with Subaru’s Symmetrical AWD and Acura’s SH-AWD on the road and in snow.

For dedicated rock crawling, I’ve only used the Jeep Wrangler, Toyota 4Runner, and Honda Pilot VTM-4 4WD systems and all of them were quite fun to use.

[eric]

I will make it simpler. AWD makes allowances for front / rear drive shaft speed differentials when turning, 4wd does not.