[Hersbird]

I suppose Inuit people should have been pushing their sleds for the last 2000 years then.

I totally disagree a RWD with all the gizmos you want in the greatest hands ever will out perform a FWD in the snow in normal town driving. The RWD likely won't even get over the plow berm in front of the house.

I suppose it comes down to two things you want to be able to do. Get going, and stop. They all stop the same, so what gets going better. Even if you had a fictitious 50/50 weight distribution on both the FWD and RWD (the FWD almost always will have more on the drive wheels while the RWD will have less) still the ability of the front wheels digging through the snow is better than rolling front wheels riding up on it creating a never ending hill the back has to overcome. Plus the car will always prefer to follow the drive wheels so better they are in the front. Some claim weight will transfer back to the rear on acceleration, but there is so little acceleration in these cases, there is no weight transfer. Cornering at the limit might be better on a RWD in the right hands, but I'm not talking about a rally race, just normal driving around town, stopping, starting, getting into traffic, going up and down hills stuff.