Winter driving depends on 3 major things. In order of importance:
 
1. Tires
 
2. Driver's driving ability
 
3. Car type - all wheel or front wheel
 
If the 1st 2 are rated excellent then the last one won't matter so much.
 

Just make sure you plug it in for a while before starting.
 

 And keep the windows closed during snow storms.
 
 
Base model:

 
Luxury edition:

Those last two look like fun!  (The ones above them, not so much!)  

UbiquitousBubba
One solitary snowflake flutters to the ground and the average IQ instantly drops 50 points. 

When I worked on the ambulance we use to say, "Instant idiots - just add water". 

paulo
It doesn't really matter what you are driving. It's the ****wit behind you/coming the other way that is the problem.

Agreed. I don't recall any more accidents in Madison, WI than here in Portland, when the ice/cold hit over there and the lakes started freezing. People over there always seemed to be ready for it, and prepared. Here it's like ... I don't care ... and they don't know how to drive on ice and snow at all. Maybe the folks living on Mt. Hood might being a bit more used to it, but those in town? Yeah!

MandolinPicker

UbiquitousBubba
One solitary snowflake flutters to the ground and the average IQ instantly drops 50 points. 

When I worked on the ambulance we use to say, "Instant idiots - just add water". 

 
My 4th grade teacher said that I was like a snowflake!

 
Good vehicle for anything 
 

 

 
My favorite Top Gear episode.  Throughout the whole program there's cut-aways to a Relient sliding on its side!  LMAO!

How did that ever get licensed for the road????

craigb
 

 
My favorite Top Gear episode.  Throughout the whole program there's cut-aways to a Relient sliding on its side!  LMAO!

I'd agree, wonderful stuff mate!
 
Coincidentally... in the scene on the cricket pitch, the 'man in the white coat' is legendary umpire Harold 'Dickie' Bird, a wonderful man I've met when he signed my copy of his autobiography and his book of cricketing memoirs 
 

Subaru.
 
I'd personally be wary of anything produced by Jeep/Chrysler in the last 30 years. 
 
Ford Explorer, not bad, I had a 2005 which ran great in all conditions.
 
I now drive a newer Ford F150 4x4 and I haven't fishtailed (yet)
 
But, Subaru. Best all around unless you need to haul loads of stuff to the dump or make Home Depot runs.
 
cheers,
-Tom