Hello! there are already some threads about meaning or usinn of the quattro drive in the a3 and this mostly with the question dsg or quattro. Sundays before two weeks I had to business from bern to frankfurt and afterwards to Cologne (fair visit – 440km) and what happened on the highways in case of strong snowfall and smoothness (taunus area) I have not yet seen in 20 years. countless accidents and staus without end. the traffic reports overturned and the space vehicles were in permanence tz even though the forced masses through the staus were not really useful. the autobahns in the Taunus area with the many-percent gradients and gradients partly correspond to rather fast pass roads rather than high-speed distances. especially here you could easily see the advantages and disadvantages of the different types of drives. apart from the fact that there are still seemingly astonishingly many idiots who had dispensed with winter tires especially the vehicles of bmw, mercedes and other h The many electronic helpers also did not bring any positive improvement in the attraction. like on a ski lift and with due distance, the rear vehicles waited until they could conquer the slope sloppy and thus large space requirements (two lanes). some only managed with several runs and others were standing on the emergency lane with overheated engines or probably k upplungsprobleme. for my a3 with quattro drive absolutely no problem. the quattro switches imperceptibly but very efficiently and without great coupling effort into the happening. conclusion: I have always been convinced of this concept and surely you meet such conditions quite rarely but it is a good feeling that I can drive my 34’000 euro investment always and everywhere and therefore I am glad that I decided for the quattro and not for the dsg have. it may be shot! greet souldriver