No big Benz is great in snow and ice. I would say "adequate", which of course means be extra carefull. The antilock brakes will help, but you need to be careful with the accelerator -- when the turbo kicks in, the rear tires will spin for sure.

My best car in snow is the 280, probably because that big V8 has a "slow" accererator linkage, you have to put your foot into it to get a big blast of power. The worst by far was the Volvo, but I think that was the tires (I got 60,00 miles out of them, and really only replaced them then because one was getting lumpy, they still had lots of tread -- must have been as hard as rocks!) It would spin on wet pavement pretty easily, and snow as impossible.

The TE goes fine on Firestone LH30 Affinities, so does the 300D, but the later is squirrely on snow and ice.

Peter

__________________
1972 220D ?? miles
1988 300E 200,012
1987 300D Turbo killed 9/25/07, 275,000 miles
1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turobodiesel 218,000
1972 280 SE 4.5 165, 000 - It runs!