'86 CAD (center axle disconnect) axle questions?

From : james grosso

Q: tbone wrote bullshit. when a fwd slips a light touch of the gass usually gets it right back. when a rwd loses traction in the front your sol and better pray that nothing else is around. when they lose traction in the rear at best nothing happens but usually the front and rear of the car exchange positions and again you better pray that nothing else is around. then there is the fun of deep snow where the front wheels plow in and get a rwd hopelessly stuck. while a rwd car can be made better in the snow with the help of studded tires and more weight in the rear a fwd is still better and doesnt require modification or pre-planning. i have owned nothing but rwd cars all of my life but when my furnace failed at the end of a blizzard and i needed to get parts for it my wifes little fwd honda civic got me there where my rwd trans-am couldnt even get out of my drive way and i knew better than to even try. think im going to have to add my voice to the chorus of agreement with you on this. actually the best rwd snow car i ever owned was a vw beetle. the larger sized wheels rear engine with fairly low cg over drive wheels and rear engine weight adding to rw traction when climbing moderate vehicle height and a mostly sealed underside made for a much more competent off road/snow vehicle than one would have thought. there is the argument about fwd torque induced sliding but i really think its minimal compared with what you gain. weight over the drive wheels that a rwd simply cant match. im assuming tire type and tread is constant in any comparison; tires will have profound effect on traction probably above and beyond fwd/rwd config. people like rwd for dry road traction during acceleration but im not talking about that context. fwd is better for snow traction in my experience and in most everything ive read. well will one of you folks please explain to me why it is that these supposedly super traction fwd cars are on their roof as regularly as they are roy .