Try driving up my 1:3 driveway in a 2wd car with snow over ice.

You'll stay until the thaw.

(I've tried it).

I have several times had to go out in my 4X4 to rescue FWD as well as RWD cars that can't get up hills here. (On winter tyres).

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TooMany2cvs said:

Pothole said:

TooMany2cvs said:

RobM77 said:

Plus don't forget that traditionally Volvos were FE/RWD, and they're Swedish...

Did anybody just say Saab...?

Anyway, Volvo haven't built a RWD car for two decades, and haven't launched a newly-designed RWD car for 35 years.

It was an answer to my post about my 1998 S90...

Indeed - a two-decade old car, one of the VERY last RWD cars they built, and really just a facelift on the 1982 700 platform.

I think you're arguing for the sake of it...he also said "traditionally" and "were"...

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I've owned sevral lucidas and i have to say they are great in the snow (2wd) but can only be better with 4WD, the 4WD is biased to the rear anyway and the understeer is B/S IME and IMHO.
My last 2WD lucida passed many many vehicals in the last snow we had 4 or 5 years ago, INC a lot of upmarket 4X4s with lowprofile sports tyres! never once got stuck with some air out the rear tyres it was pretty dam impressive mainly for the reasons the seller quotes such as auto so changes up limiting the torque to the drive wheels, lots of weight transfer to the drive wheels (soft suspension) and it drifted very well for it's size, some of the best fun i've had in the snow was in a lucida smile

never snowed when i had the 4X4 but that was way better on wet grass and in mud than the 2WD, snow is actually quite grippy when it's fresh, when it's over ice it's deadly as is anything to do with ice wink