I've been off road in a foot of snow and never had the least bit of a problem and even on snow covered rutted , rocky hill's,with and without the center diff. locked. I personally think the 4R is great in the snow.

I have a hard time believing that it would get stuck in 4" of snow. I think there's more to that story than what were reading.

Ultimately....I would love to be able to switch off all the electronic BS,VSC,Atrac,dac,the reverse hold stuff. I wish they would have switches to turn all that on and off. That's one thing I don't like about the 4R. When driving on snow covered road's on or off road I feel better with the center diff. locked and no VSC.