I have been driving for 64 years and have owned a '98 e300 for the last 10 years. I have never driven a car that is worse in snow than this one. It is difficult to control and gets stuck easily. I live just outside Washington, D.C. and do not drive the car when there is snow on the roads. It is not much of a burden, because I am retired; we don't get much snow; when we get it, the snow doesn't stay on the ground long; and in those few instances where it has stayed, the roads are cleared pretty fast.

I grew up in northern Illinois where we got lots of snow and moved from there in 1962. The cars I drove there (a 1935 Plymouth, a '49 Chevy, a '50 Chevy, a '51 Ford, a '56 Ford) were all better in snow than a '98 e300.