I would say for rear wheel drive cars and trucks rear snow tires are best. For front wheel drive, I'd say Kendall was right on. You will rarely know the difference. The best cars I have ever seen in the snow are big 4wd pickups with huge snow tires or our Subaru Forester with all season tires.

All this being said, when I lived in near Toronto in the late eighties, I had a rwd Datsun b210 with all season tires and had no trouble getting around in the snow. One day when people were told to go home early because of a storm at work, I had to teach five people how to drive in the snow so that they could get out of the parking lot.

A lot depends upon your ability to drive in snow.