As has been said already invest in winter wheels and tyres and send her for some decent driving tuition, it'll be a hell of a lot more beneficial and last her the rest of her life. Putting your other half in a cheap FWD that she has no experience in driving for a few days a year isn't going to magically make her or anyone else safer, quite the opposite. She's not going to suddenly know what to do in the event of a slide just because she has FWD but now instead of a Golf with a low centre of mavity she has a 2 tonne 4x4 with a high centre of mavity, she over corrects, meets a ditch sideways and it goes over, hardly a safe outcome.
I used to drive a 4x4 year round for driving daily in very rural area's in the kind of locations where you see two people a day and remark it was busy when you get home, you could count on one hand how many times FWD was actually of benefit and none of them related to snow and ice and that includes the two worst winters in the last 6 years.
I used to drive a 4x4 year round for driving daily in very rural area's in the kind of locations where you see two people a day and remark it was busy when you get home, you could count on one hand how many times FWD was actually of benefit and none of them related to snow and ice and that includes the two worst winters in the last 6 years.
