[squall leonhart]

Not sure where this fits in the argument, it certainly doesn't really fit into 2020 Supra discussion...but back in the mid-90s before SUVs were quite the thing they are now, my brother had a light duty truck. Back then, it was just a normal truck. But now it would be toy sized. It was just RWD...but it had ground clearance. Admittedly I have no clue what tires he had, as I was his brat brother in Jr. High and didn't really care about trucks...still don't for the most part. It was horrible in snow unless it had plenty of sandbags in the bed and driven super carefully. (And I think he still had to use some of those sand bags to get un-stuck multiple times).

My dad has a '92 Wrangler 4x4. Not great in snow. It has chunky tires, but not snow tires, as he generally prefers to leave the top off. It's a summer vehicle. I only remember driving it once on snow, and it was scary. My daily driver back then was my '86 Celica (with some Mastercraft, probably all-season tire)...I don't ever remember feeling as scared in snow in it as in the Jeep with the 4WD engaged.

In the early 2000's I had my '88 Celica All-Trac...with cheapo Firestone Winterforce tires for winter. I have never felt safer driving in snow than in that car. It was completely controlled, and so much fun.

I drove my 2000 Celica GT-S through a 13"+ blizzard on a 7 or so hour round trip to see a concert about 10 years ago. Saw cars, plenty of SUVs, semi trucks and emergency personnel off the road. I cracked the paint on my bumper because in many places I was plowing through 2 foot high walls left by snow plows. Back then I had Bridgestone Blizzaks. Now 10 or so years later it has new Cooper Evolution snow tires. They've been working nicely as well...I've found a few times I'm getting held up by SUVs with AWD. And I drive very carefully in snow, and the Celica is lowered on coilovers (threads are too old and dirty now to raise it back up for winter). I tend to use the back roads to get into town for work, because the main roads that are better plowed are more dangerous from stupid drivers.

All I'm saying is, IMO, 2WD low clearance cars can hold their own in snow with proper tires. Sure, an AWD SUV with snow tires is going to have better traction than my little Celica. But the Celica is still safe and quite driveable. I don't generally see SUVs or trucks with snow tires, because they seem to believe that they can already go anywhere in any weather (and at any speed) because they have AWD/4WD, so snow tires would just be a "waste of money".

I'm sick of being surrounded by SUVs and huge trucks. But I see no end in sight. I'd much rather be surrounded by new Supras. There we go...back on topic.