My Forester is great in the snow on all seasons. Now my favorite is when I threw some blizzaks on my 1986 BMW 535i, that things was a blast. There was no corner I didn't go around sideways. That and it just didn't get stuck on anything. Which one would go faster on a track? Probably the forester, there's a reason WRC went from RWD (ages ago) to 4wd, you can throw a car farther into the corner (more speed) and dig out with the throttle. We'll just have to have an OR meeting at the SCCA Snow-X next year to settle this.