Ahh I have not been on this site in a while, Its good to see people are contributing to this thread.

I will add my own story as I just spent a morning driving into a pretty decent snow storm up in the Mountains here in Colorado. Unlike the city snow driving, driving at 11k feet with temps below 0, on steep grades change the demands of snow driving.

So yesterday I watched as many FWD cars were stuck on a pitch right before the Eisenhower tunnel. I was humored as many cars got stuck on the same incline and caused a 5 mile traffic jam.. Infact when I got to that spot I had a Mini Cooper and a Ford Escape FWD almost crash into each other and the concrete barrier numerous times as they could not get traction.

I was stuck behind both cars until they both drifted left towards the concrete median and then I simply drove around them with no issues. No slipping, drifting ect, did not even get my Traction light to come on. Bear in mind that I had my VDC on but did NOT have SNOW mode turned on. The car acted like a champ in the snow.

However last week when I drove over Loveland Pass on snowpacked roads I went to pass a tanker truck with my VDC off... and the car went all Tokyo Drift on me. It was an exciting experience to say the least as I scared the crap out of my friend, bc the back end of the car swapped back and forth a few times as we drifted sideways by the truck at like 20-30mph. It was all controlled as I have played with this car in the Snow quite a bit, but it was a complete different experience than what I had yesterday with VDC on.

Check out these video's I found. They seem to advertise the AWD system as if it can be 50/50 when things slip. If that is true, when the back end of the car slides out shouldn't the front wheels adjust to have the 50% torque split? Therefore cutting power to the rear wheels and making the front wheels do the work thus pulling the rear wheels back in line?

To me this still begs the ???? when you turn the VDC off does the 50/50 potential diff split still work the same way. BC in my experience the car tends to act more like a RWD car. As others have pointed out u can break traction in this car with the VDC off.

I am just humored by how this car has such a split personality with VDC on vs off.

Sorry for the book........Just food for thought.