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FWD is just as dangerous for different reasons. The risks of RWD are just a fabrication of the early days of FWD to get people to adopt this form of drive. Back then, few cars were FWD and everyone had RWD cars and so people were reluctant to try them. The car companies and gov't wanted people in FWD cars because they could make them more fuel efficient and so they cooked up a lot of myths about FWD cars being more "safe" to trick people into adopting them. It worked.
Any car can go out of control in the snow.
However, cars these days come with stability and traction controls which greatly assist the driver in the snow.
Bear in mind that a perfomance car of ANY type will not be great in the snow because of their high horsepower, and wide tires. You will have a handful in any sporty car in ice and snow.
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