My comfortable large double glazed four wheel drive saloon with its Cd of less than 0.3. Regulars will know what it is!

For the benefit of those who aren't regulars, what is it?

It's a 2005 Audi W12 sport quattro. V rare - only about 50 in this county - most people will never have seen one.

We had a 205 diesel back in the 1980s, brilliant in the snow with a heavy engine over the driving wheels and quite thin tyres by today's standards.

Same for me except it was a MK2 Fiesta. On the odd occasion you couldn't drive forwards through a snowdrift, turn round and it would reverse through!

We had a 205 diesel back in the 1980s, brilliant in the snow with a heavy engine over the driving wheels and quite thin tyres by today's standards.

I started driving my father's VW Beetle back in the '60s. He also needed an all weather car. The engine over the tall thin rear driven wheels was an excellent combination, especially going up snowy Yorkshire hills when weight is transferred from front to rear, putting FWD cars at a disadvantage unless they reversed up.

"Back in the day" I lived in Kenya, 45 miles of mud track from the nearest tarmac road and in my VW Variant. could get through almost any conditions (except when heavy logging trucks had worn deep ruts which left me stranded!)

For those who can't / don't remember the Variant it was the estate version of the original VW Beetle - rear engined (and of course only 2WD) but with the back well loaded to give weight on the driven wheels (and chains - which were a real mess to take on and off in the mud!) it was the match of almost any 4x4. Indeed after one very muddy journey I got through sections that a colleague driving a Toyota Land-Cruiser could only negotiate using his winch to pull himself clear.

As a result, he bought the Variant from me ... but never drove it with enough momentum to get through the really muddy patches!

Best car in the snow I had was unbelievably a Fiat Panda...the original one. The little car went past many stranded ones in heavy snow on a dreadful night.

I find it very easy to believe this.

Once, many years ago I borrowed a Fiat Cinquencento from the garage I worked (in Wigan) to go and spend Christmas with family in Aberdeenshire. Not only was there a lot of snow on the main road up, but there was even more while I was there. But the little Fiat never missed a beat, the dinky little 145 tyres seemed to have no problem finding traction. While there, I had to go and rescue a friend who'd got stuck in his Cavalier. He was very miffed about it because he'd made fun of the car when he first saw it, I got the last laugh though!. Only problem I recall was washers freezing, this was solved by putting some meths in the washer bottle ;-)

Ditto for me - my old mid 90s Micra was brilliant in the snow: skinny tyres (relatively), low powered car and one that you could tick along slowly and easily in low gear with barely any throttle and without stalling it. That combined with my normally genetle driving style seems to have done the trick.

Mine fared far better than most during the big snow storm of early 2003. I was one a few colleagues who managed to get home that day in a reasonable time, only being held up for 30 mins or so by an HGV stuck halfway up a steep hill.

Still haven't 'tested' my CC+s (fitted 2018) on the Mazda3 in the snow yet, but am 'looking forward' to doing so. Especially as this set are now 195/65 R15s instead of the OEM 205/55 R16s, which weren't too shabby (even the OEM [luckily no snow in that final year of wonership] and last set of tyres, both which were summer tyres), so should work better in snow.