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>From personal experience: Cars with more weight on their driving wheels get more traction in snow. Ice is for hockey, you can't drive on it. Bugs (never drove a t-3 in snow- they're RARE cars in the rust belt!) got great traction. Old Subaru front-wheelers got great traction. Bugs love ditches, tho, while I never ditched the Sube. Think about it- the weight on the bug was on the non-steering end, so when the light end loses traction, you lose steering. In other words, you slide into the ditch! The Sube, tho, could pull out of just about anything that wasn't ice, since its steering end was also its heavy end. The Chevys, (Camaro, Monza, pickup) just bit it. Same for any RWD Volvo (volvos seem WORSE, but that's, again, subjective). NONE of them could go when the bug or Sube went just fine, ESPECIALLY up hills. Again from experience, when the rear end of a rwd car starts coming around in snow, you better pray no-one's coming the other way, 'cause you're about to make some entertaining skid marks, and maybe a big dent in a snowbank! The bug made a few, usually with the engine-end facing forward... Usually the more forgiving front- wheeler would just spin a bit, you let up just a hair, and continued on your way. This was, tho, Buffalo, so the laws of winter driving could vary <grin!> And on dry pavement, with traction, I'd MUCH rather be driving a rear-drive car ANY DAY! It's just more fun! (because there's no sane way to get a front- drive car to tail- out on a corner!) Throttle- steer is less fun. And the type-3 has the engine there <grin, again> I don't know where Consumer Reporters drive, or how. They're a bit stiff-shirted for me, and I sometimes (like now) really disagree with them. Other times, it's just "oh, get a life"! And often, they're right. But I'll race them up a snowy windy road, them in their 2wd pickup and me in my old Front-drive subaru any day! Sorry for spouting so far off-topic, my former life south of Buffalo, Toby B > RWD cars ( *this* is gonna start controversy) handle/perform better in the > snow. It was my own personal prejudice, until I read it in Consumer > Reports. It's there, in one of their annual reviews. They're very sheepish > about admitting it after touting FWD in wet/snowy conditions for so many > years, but they said that after all is said and done, RWD provides more > control. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org