"Matt O'Toole" > wrote in message
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> Geez, how did people get around before Quattros and Xi-s?

Ummm, slowly?

Seriously. Any FWD, RWD or AWD (*including* Quattro) can be made to go
quite nicely in snow when the right tires are put on them. The rest is just
varying dgrees of confidence at incremental speeds.

Some prefer the front weight biased FWD which is sort of a point and shoot
dart approach.
Others (myself included) prefer the rear driven, power-sliding cart before
the horse.
And yet a third category wouldn't be caught dead without their full time AWD
pulling from both ends.

It's all preference and none are completely superior. As in all things in
life, it is a matter of balancing trade-offs.

-Fred W