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Originally Posted by Ryland
Other thing to think about is just a 2 wheel drive vehicle with good snow tires, part of snow tire design is wet traction, something you need to pull a boat out and at that point you could get away with pretty much any decent car that had a solid enough body to put a trailer hitch on.
Either way, good snow tires on a 2 wheel drive car can be better then a 4 wheel drive vehicle, besides many 4 wheel drive vehicles are not designed to drive over 55mph in 4 wheel drive.
Or if it's only a few times a year that you use the boat, rent or borrow a vehicle, that is what I've done with my boat.
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Tires.
The #1 factor for snow driving is tires. Not FWD/RWD/AWD.
A 2wd with winter tires will go anywhere you need and will go more places and brake and handle better than an AWD with summer tires.
To illustrate this:
This one confirms your comment about winter tires improving wet traction: