@fodaddy
Around here, every rwd vehicle is enhanced by adding weight and wearing snow tires. I tried an experiment some years ago. I drove my Suzuki Sidekick to pick up tube sand in 70 lb bags for my pick up truck. At the VIP store, I loaded over 400 lbs in the back. It squatted some, but I drove back in 2wd with AT tires without spinning a tire. When I drove out I needed 4 wd engaged. I drove in 2 wd back out to the end of our mile and a half road just to check the differnce again. 2wd with all that weight, went as well, easier in some areas, as 4 wd without. Now, my Zuki wouldn’t like that diet every day, but the extra weight was surprisingly effective . Any one who experiments with added weight, sees immediate advantages…in rwd, 4 wd.
I even throw a bag or two in the back of my wife’s RAV Awd, and it helps when it’s really bad.