The folks at TyreReviews are releasing a series of videos that showcase the importance of winter tires and how they stack against all-wheel drive vehicle inadequately equipped with summer tires.

In the video below, a BMW M3 (RWD) running on Michelin Pilot Alpin 4 UHP winter tires goes against a Subaru Forester 2.5XT PPP on Bridgestone Potenza RE070 UHP summer tires.

The challenge stipulates that first car up the hill is the winner.

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As you can see in the video below, SUVs that are not equipped with proper winter tires as just as bad, if not worse as rear-wheel drive vehicles in snow, but with a good set of winter rubers, even a powerful rear-wheel drive M3 can be safer in snowy conditions.

Here are some great articles that our own Shawn Molnar wrote on winter tires: 1 and 2.