Driving in snow is not all that hard .. it really depends on your tires. Proper winter tires, as opposed to all season tires make all the difference. I live in Thunder Bay, Ontario. It's pretty far north and snows a heck of a lot. My 99 stang gets by just fine, mind you i do have blizzaks on the car, and man what a difference. My normal tires are all seasons (supposedly) i drove in the snow for the frist few days this winter with them, and there is no way in hell you could ever survive all winter with them.
mm .. and AWD is awesome for performance and winter driving. A friend of mine is a Talon nut, and has three of them. One for the summer, runs 11s, one for parts, and a AWD non turbo talon for the winter. He can basically drive through anything in the winter, the thing never gets stuck.