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Old Jun 17, 2015 | 12:10 pm
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Originally Posted by mad_atta
I'm looking at booking an SUV from Alamo/National as a one way rental from LAS to South Dakota. They have good rates on compact SUV (Rav4 or similar) and mid-size SUV (Hyundai Santa Fe or similar) but is there any way to tell whether either is actually 4WD / AWD? If not, then I'd just rent a regular sedan.

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If anyone else is curious about this, my experience was that they had quite a selection of both compact and mid-size, and there seemed to be a roughly 50/50 mix of 4WD/AWD vs 2WD models (at least that I could readily identify). In the midsize SUV aisle was a bunch of Hyundai Santa Fes, a few Dodge Journeys (ugh), a Jeep Grand Cherokee (2WD only, unfortunately), and 4WD Ford Explorer Limited, which we gratefully took. Not a bad vehicle for 2 weeks of driving around the west. We also tested its 4WD abilities to the max, on some unusually muddy Utah backways.
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