Ummm.... Oddyseus, If it's AWD, no other Nissan, Honda or Dodge will touch it as a "winter beater". I ran around this past winter on bald NITTO NT555R drag radials with my 2g AWD on ice, and never had a traction problem that I didn't mean to (4-wheel burnouts on ice are great!). My ABS is broken, too. AWD can't be beat in the winter, and my cx hatch got stuck several times. Like any time I stopped. Any non-truck import is pretty easy to get high-centered in, though.
If it's FWD/turbo, then I agree... 175whp on ice is a pretty bad idea, and you won't have any problem "running into shit and totally destroying it". But you should be ashamed of yourself for doing that to something that's 4g63 powered.