I would also have a couple of bags of sand in the back of Peugeot 504s and 505s, if snow was around. This was back in the 70s and 80s. Modern cars would of course have traction control so it may not be so relevant these days.
A Peugeot 205 diesel in the mid 80s was also excellent, a heavy diesel engine over the front wheels, with manual gearbox and sensible tyres got me around in most weather.
Particularly excellent was a Citroen GS. FWD and the handbrake worked on the front wheels, so if one wheel span you could apply the handbrake very slightly to prevent it spinning. A very crude but surprisingly effective limited-slip arrangement. That combined with a very torquey boxer engine, adjustable ride height, narrow tyres and a low overall weight, that car was almost unstoppable in snow as we had in 1981/2. I remember driving up the A4 out of Box to Corsham, passing many abandoned vehicles on the way. In those days only farmers tended to have 4x4s.
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