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Who says 4WD is useless in a city?

By adamg on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 12:36pm
Car on snow in Boston

Manu captured this scene in the Seaport this morning.

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South Boston
Free tagging: 
Seaport
Parking


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Comments

By anon on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 1:25pm.

Seeing the photo gives me the urge to tip it over.

By slowman4130 on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 11:15am.

Ok Hercules.

By bostnkid on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 1:30pm.

I used to do that all the time when I had a jeep and lived in brighton. its like having a moving space saver.

By Gary C on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 4:31pm.

This is what makes New England great (again.)

By spin_o_rama on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 1:31pm.

Must be buried somewhere.

By anon on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 1:38pm.

Or non-existent on that street.

By spin_o_rama on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 5:40pm.

Just haven't got a fresh coat of paint like the parking spots :)

https://goo.gl/maps/Sg9CpDRWiQE2

By Lmo on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 10:55pm.

I'm not surprised at the fine parking job pictured on the map.

By Refugee on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 3:59pm.

As long as your bicycle has 4WD you should be fine.

By roadman on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 1:44pm.

like this on Boylston Street since the storm. Nothing to see here.

By Kaz on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 2:11pm.

When the ice is as cragged and rock solid as it is right now with temps below freezing every day, you don't need 4 wheels of traction to drive on it. You just need enough ground clearance to make sure you don't damage the bottom of your car when one set of wheels leaves a high point and puts it under your undercarriage instead.

As long as your car doesn't melt into the snow pile and end up in a rut before you get back and as long as you're not going to scrape the bottom of your car on it getting in and out, you should be fine.

By anon on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 3:04pm.

That model of VW is a 2WD.

By bostonbob235 on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 9:55pm.

This is false.

By Kaz on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 10:51pm.

This is a recent model Touareg. They are all 4WD.

By anon on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 3:45pm.

Parking on an incline, wheels not cut in (unsure of fine), and more than 12 inches from curb, so 35 $ fine.

By Kaz on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 8:33pm.

They don't measure vertically.

By slowman4130 on Fri, 03/24/2017 - 11:19am.

it doesn't actually give a direction...

By B on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 4:08pm.

...what bike lane? Hahaha Tool

By anon on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 4:36pm.

Or a lane for bikes. It is called a travel lane - anyone can use it.

Only tools will whine about that, right?

By Lanny Budd on Thu, 03/23/2017 - 11:51pm.

I drove by that spot not five minutes before the guy parked there. We walked past it on the way to the Flower Show, glad we passed it by. Our sedan would not have been happy parked that way.