rear wheel drive in winter?

I have drove front wheel drive cars for years and they are best in snow... but... now day you can get traction control in cars. If you can get traction control I would recommend a real wheel drive car as they will be good in snow also and will get better gas mileage.

If you drive allot in the snow go for the front wheel drive. Growing up I lived on a block that was a dead end street. It was always one of the last to be plowed. One of my first cars was a small front wheel drive Buick Skyhawk. Not exactly a snow car, but I didn't have much trouble in the snow. My first brand new car was a Mercury Cougar. It was sometimes a nightmare in the snow. When I would try driving out of my block I would almost always get stuck. And as soon as I got the car moving a little, the rear of the car would slide to the side and I'd get stuck again. That's when I noticed that all the cars that were front wheel drive moved just fine down the street while any of us who had rear wheel drive had trouble.

Get it.........

The biggest benefit to rear wheel drive is that it spreads the loads of the car across all four tires of a car. In a rear wheel drive car the rear wheels do the pushing while the front wheels are reserved for the steering duties.

In front wheel drive cars the front tires must perform both functions. Each front tire in a front wheel drive car must do two tasks. Both the cornering forces and the engine acceleration/deceleration forces in a front drive car act on the same tire.

So in a front drive the tires capacity can be easily exceeded. In a rear drive car the rear tires handle the engine acceleration/deceleration while the front only need to handle the steering forces.

Not only does this balance the load on the tires but it reserves the front tires exclusively for the all important steering duties.

If you are not real experienced on driving on snow I would suggest front wheel drive. There is quite a bit of difference in the handling and traction between the 2.

abs only helps stop an dmost al new cars has it but really on snow and ice not much of anything works great front wheel drive and four wheel drive does get better traction or just rear wheel drive since weight or motor is more on tires and four wheel drive have two more wheel to pull or hold one back dont make your choice by now it might drive in winter ive drove more rear wheel drive than front i prefer them over front wheel drive but thats my choice

Police cars don't try to run all weather tires where I live. Studded snow tires all the way around. Part of it is experience (officers of the law often have to take special driving schools) and the rest is in picking the right tool to do the job. A RWD car with snow tires all the way around is better on the road in winter then either a FWD or even 4 WD. The ones with the advantage are the vehicles with AWD and traction control (like post 2000 Subaru's or there abouts).

If you want a G35 sedan, and are concerned about it in the snow, then why don't you look at the G35x with all wheel drive. They are very popular here in New England, and with a good set of snow tires, will work out just fine in the snow.