Snow Season Is HERE! What Are Your FAVORITE Crossovers, SUVs And Trucks? Which Is BEST In The White Stuff?

I can tell you my favorite, but I can't tell you what's "best". That's for you to decide, based on what you like and value.

I'm loving my late first gen Audi Q5 with 3.0L V6 diesel. Drives beautifully. Very car-like, inside and out. It's the best-selling vehicle in its class (luxury midsized SUV, with >1.5M copies sold), though I didn't know that when I got it. I LOVE the look, inside and out! With over 24,000 miles of combined city/highway driving, I have a lifetime 36.8 MPG US. My best tank ever was during a drip to Florida, where I got a true (alost) 52 MPG US. Mind you, great fuel economy comes from driving it gently. Hammer it and you get 0-60 MPH of about 6.4 sec.

As for the snow, this is my first AWD, first Quattro, first Audi, first SUV, first diesel. It's awesome in the snow, assuming you have 4 good snow tires. All-season tires suck in snow. In corners, it goes where you point it, and drifts predictably if you push it beyond traction limits. Turn the traction-control gadgets off and it becomes a rally car in snow. Loads of fun. Very controllable.

In the winter of 2015/16, I took it out during the year's heaviest snowfall. Nothing stopped it, including stopping on a knee-high plow berm (4 lanes to 1 side), and then easily crawling out. Transition from plowed to overplowed (3 lanes of snow onto mine) road at 35mph was uneventful.

I also love not bottoming out on speed-bumps and curbs ever since I switched from a sports car to an SUV. I can't say enough good stuff about it :-)

And yeah, I know there are all sorts of wonderful vehicles out there. I just love my car :-)

Unless the snow gets too deep, I have preferred my Audi quatrro sedans the most, especially the ones with a manual. Being lower to the ground is an advantage in handling, But, when the snow does get deep, my Q7 has performed admirably.

Once a year, Interstate 5 just south of town is closed due to a mysterious substance called snow and the cataclysm of not being able to get to LA lasts an ungodly few hours, then it's back to summer a few days later.

For real winter driving - I much prefer my 130HP diesel John Deer Tractor - with 8 foot wide 42 in high Commercial double auger Snowblower. The tractor cab is heated and cooled -and it never ever gets stuck in snow. It will blow the snow in front of most houses on my road OVER the house to their backyards. I get the road cleared before the county trucks come near so that they don't close in all the driveways.

However - as far as cars/suvs for snow - I have found that if the snow is too deep for a mid-size front driver to get through(Front heavy) - everyone else is not going to get there - even in their 4x4s. I remember an X car(Pontiac Phoenix 4 door Hatch) I had - 6 cylinder 2.8 - that had over 65% of its weight over the front wheels. With Snow tires - all my cars get snow tires in the winter - it just never got truly stuck on a paved road.

Nokian Hakkapeliitta tires - and what they are attached to is of much lesser importance. Old Subaru wagon would be my preference.

Personal favorite, Ford Expedition. When in doubt, lock it out. Otherwise, leave the beast in AWD mode. With a proper set of snow tires, it would take a ton of snow on the road to stop one of these.

I've previously driven an unmodified Ford F150 crew cab (fully locked) through 2 feet of uncut powder in Indiana. Even with snow tires, that was a ball-raising experience considering the high potential for getting stuck without a tow nearby.

I spit out water laughing when I got to "ball-raising experience"

Dirty snow salt grime shoes? The Subaru Forester is made for this stuff. Don't have to worry about nice interior, just get in and drive. Let all the dirt and crap accumulate throughout the winter - it's made for it.