I live up in the Twin Cities and am looking at an 04 Infiniti G35. I found one with 40k miles and it's a steal for the price. The dilemna I'm having is that it is a Rear Wheel Drive vehicle and I live in a state that has a lot of snow, ice, etc. I am aware that there is a G35X that is AWD, but haven't seen one close to the price of this car. The car is beautiful, but I'm really apprehensive as I don't have any experience with a RWD vehicle. I know the whole sandbags in the trunk thing, but can anyone give some advice that has or has driven a RWD vehicle where it snows a lot in the winter? I see many, many, BMW's, Infiniti's, etc up here driving around in the winter, but was just curious as to how difficult it is and if it's worth going after this car.

Thanks in advance

So long as you are careful then you will be fine ,i have been running RWD cars for years and blimey it snows every year and is very wet here alot which makes it slippery.
Just be careful when setting off from stand still and on corners and allow extra braking time,to be honest the same rules in a FWD car.
As you said yourself many many people drive round in RWD cars through the Winter months,without no problems and at the end of the day you could have an accident in a RWD AWD car they dont make you invincible in bad weather.
You will be fine and if the weather is that bad out there on a bad day, i wouldnt take any drive car out.

Just dont do what i did at the lights in the wet i was side by side with another car reving up,but when the lights changed i floored my old R32 only to be left sitting there spinning and snaking on the spot,i lost but got some great cheers from folks walking by thinking it was all a display.

aaaa....RWD have more chances of skidding in snow because my bro own a caddilac SRX and it kinda skids on road when turning and a bit chance of stucking when their's alot of snow on the driveway!!
but i really like the RWD...they are really nice to drive but really in snow untill u drive carefull.....if u drive carefull then its not even a problem for u!!!!!!

The G35 has traction control, so you'll be alright. Make sure you run winter snow tires during the winter season. Just drive smart and you will be fine. I took my Mountaineer 2WD to Utah in the dead of winter last year and it did fine, plus I don't have traction control of any kind.