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Last winter I was dropping some groceries off for some friends who didn’t really want to drive their Civic in the snow and got to watch their neighbor get their Golf stuck on a pile of snow they’d tried to drive though. I think we had 6-8 inches on the ground for a little while and the only time I took my Bronco out of 2hi was to drive though the mounds the plows had left so I could parallel park.
OP’s dad is thinking about the bad old days when everything was nose heavy and it could be (a little) hard get going in the snow. But the is the 21st century and modern RWD cars are fairly evenly balanced. I kind of like RWD because you can down shift (carefully) to slow down without effecting your ability to steer.
I think what you really need are real snow tires and a little ground clearance if you won’t be sticking to plowed roads. And don’t drive like a fool, I’ve seen all kinds of cars get stuck I had no issues driving. I worked my way through college driving a wrecker and most getting stuck in the snow is due to being dumb, like most other one car accidents.
ETA: If the Golf driver had had RWD, he probably would have noticed when the snow lifted the front up so he couldn’t steer and been able to back off of the pile.
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