Driving a Smart Car in the snow and ice is pretty fun.

You have pretty much the worst of all possibilities, no power, wide tyres (for the size/weight of car), rear wheel drive, automatic traction control (that can't be turned off) short wheel base and no clutch control to speak of. Oh and in mine engine braking is non-existent as the engine cuts under 5mph (although I can turn this feature off)

Still, I have been able to get everywhere, and there are some knobs on my estate that have these town style 4x4 SUV/car things and have got stuck at the first hint of snow. Although likely hood of driver error is pretty high in most cases!!!

I think tyres are the key issue, if you put my Smart Car ones onto the worlds best Landrover, that would still get stuck. Winter tyres are needed for the kind of conditions we have here at the moment, in Austria last year we had some tiny rental car with a winter set on and you could hardly tell you were driving on snow at all.

Cheers

Cris.