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[–] Philippe23@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Okay my "always" qualifier was overzealous, but ...

Since 2020, about 9 percent of the cars tested by Consumer Reports have come with a full-sized spare. Studying our database, we found that 46 percent came with a temporary (aka space-saver) spare tire, and the rest were equipped with a sealant kit (34 percent), a run-flat tire (7 percent), or nothing at all (4 percent).

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/tires/some-newer-cars-are-missing-a-spare-tire-a9928775934/

And I'm betting that if you could find stats that broke that down by AWD, it'd be even smaller since I expected the correlation of full-size spares is more toward pickups and 4x4s. Further, I'd bet that most people with full-size spares leave it out of the rotation anyway because many (most?) don't have a cosmetic hub cap and becomes an eye sore.