I am pleasantly surprised with the deep snow performance of my 2011 diesel. I've always used Michelin X-Ice or Blizzaks on all of my vehicles here in Northern Wisconsin and swear by the use of dedicated ice/snow tires. But, my 2011 has the Michelin Latitude Tour in 315/275's and they are much, much better than I ever thought they would be. If I was staying here in Wisconsin for more than this 3 weeks I would install ice tires but am headed to Florida for 3 months on Monday so no ice tires this year. We've already had over 4 feet of snow where I live and have driven through over a foot of snow with no issues on these Latitudes. I never would've expected such good winter performance and trust me, I know the benefits of dedicated ice tires.
I installed Blizzaks on my 2006 X5 when I owned that one and they were amazing and I really thought these huge 315/275's would've really sucked in the snow/ice but they didn't. I would highly recommend Michelin Latitudes for those of you that may have to only occasionally deal with ice and snow.
Here's a pic from Northern Wisconsin last week.
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