Weight distribution is pretty good, something like 53/47. Any time you increase the rear bias though, you will help it's acceleration traction.

I drove my '87 300D in the snow a few years ago, had to go back to a boat-building plant up in the Michigan dunes. Coming out it was snowing bad, I chained up with a set of cable-chains I was itching to use and drove up into the dunes. I then waited for my customers in their F-350 Dually, who never made it. A crew building a house at the top of the dune went down with a tracked Caterpillar thing, got it sideways and slid off of the road. Next went a loader, spreading sand and scraping snow, eventually made enough of a sand road down to pull the Cat and the F-350 out. It was fun to watch from the top, ... with my little RWD car (no snows) and cable-chains. I did have one 50# bag of silica-sand in the trunk.

The addition of 50-100# as far forward in the trunk as you can get it really does help. Too much and you're just putting unnecessary weight on the springs, keep the tank full. If you have a problem, the coursest sand you can carry will be great on the road also, and a bit of Calcium-Chloride ice-melt helps as well. Don't bother with kitty-litter, ever slipped on wet clay? Worthless.

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