Forget cornhole or volleyball. The undisputed #1 spectator sport on a busy holiday beach is watching people drive onto the soft sand.
From the safety of your shaded canopy, you watch the drama unfold in real time. A city driver in a brand-new crossover approaches the deep, sugar-soft sand with unearned confidence. The passengers are laughing, music is blaring—and then, the sudden deceleration hits. You watch the front tires sink three inches, the driver panics and smashes the gas, and a plume of sand shoots thirty feet into the air.
Game over. They are buried to the axles.
It’s not just 2WD sedans, either; plenty of 4WD owners learn the hard way that all-wheel drive doesn’t mean all-terrain magic.
