Of course it's not going to want to go up an icy hill when you keep stopping and are afraid to hit the gas.

In snow, momentum is your friend. You guys keep stopping 1/2 way up in the deep and then throttle the vehicles. Keeping a steady pace is the way.

The Audi A6 allroad air Suspension goes one step higher then shown in the offroad mode in this video. The way to do it is to select offroad mode, then touch one time in the raise column(where you see the height column). Thats the way to unlock the fifth height increase. In this video the allroad is in height mode 4 of total 5(where 5 is the highest level). Winter tires, little more height and throttle would have helped alot with this quattro🙂. I have own severel, and they are truly great offroad wagons 👍 Test the Audi E-Tron S with three motors and good winter tires, truly a beast offroad and especially on dynamic winter driving (ice track with studded tires😎).. But remember the height column after you select offroad for best clearance in the wild. I personally own the E-Tron S tri motor and it is awesome in the snow and ice😎 Best regards from Norway(Hard winters)

Love the ranch but love to see you guys on the mountains again. You guys are awesome and enjoy all of your off road content... 🙂👍

Ok. Credit to the KIA for keeping all 4 wheels spinning without killing power. Would like to see Telluride vs Hylander and Ascent in this scenario.

In the most recent podcast Roman said he loves hearing about us watching TFL on the weekends with our morning coffee, wanted to let you know Roman this Sunday I woke up early, stuck on some eggs and a pot of coffee with this episode on the TV! Great job love your content

I like when Roman makes himself vulnerable and reveals he's a hoarder (still has all his childhood toys). This channel with short-term ownership of vehicles is great therapy. I'm with you Roman pulling for you to be able to let go of things.😁😅🤣

This was a great presentation that would appeal to all enthusiasts. Best line, "How willing are you going to be when you possibly break or damage your own vehicle...."! BINGO! That's the meat & potatoes of it.

Matt's Off-road Recovery will be pulling those KIA out a lot, I predict.

All that was missing in this, was Nathan gleefully sending it up hill in the Defender. 😁😁

At least you called it that the biggest weakness for the Defender was the wimpy sidewalls. If you had wheels/tires with beefy sidewalls (I'm thinking more like going down to 16-17" wheels) you could have aired down and snoozed through all that.

Roman - then why bring the Audi if you are too worried to test it hard? I get it that you don't want to break but, but what I don't get is including it in the video.

"the big hard boiled egg" really made me laugh. I thought it was a perfect analogy especially when you got to the defender

The world needs more wagons!

Audi has always suprised me with their AWD system, I seen them plow thru snow like nothing, but yeah off roading like that I can see why you have to be careful way to expensive & obviously you don't want parts flying all over.

I strongly believe the Telluride was more than capable for this test. My Sorento with all-season tires has gotten me up steeper hills that were unplowed.

The ranch is cool but I love seeing you on a trail.

What great vehicles. My price limit for an off roader is $30,000. Surely they come as used.

Really enjoying the videos lately, love the variety of content. Keep it up!

I think that Audi had a lot more to offer. Wish it had gotten a fair shake.

17:06 Andre looks like B.A. Baracus (Mr. T) driving the van on A-Team! lol Great video!

Good thing you abandoned the Audi test before it got scrambled. The Land Rover as expected went over easy.

I really like these kind of comparistions. Great to see all the different settings each manufacturer has for this type of conditions. I wonder how the 2023 Jeep Cherokee Track Hawk would do in these conditions, vs Defender

Great video, but it really shows the importance of wheel size and tyres. 22s on a Defender?🤯 Think I’ll stick with my current combo- Audi Q4 E-Tron on 20s for daily duties, and a Disco 2 TD5 on 18s if I need three rows (and a set of 16s for play time😜)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It would have been awesome to see Nathan's Santa Cruz on this one! I'm considering the Santa Cruz 2.5 NA AWD but I am curious about its performance in the snow. The Santa Cruz would have given us a good sub 40k addition to this test.

Can't believe how they drove that Audi freaking unbelievable...

Love these real word testes. Can't believe Andrey actually gave the LR the beans!!!

I've driven an old Mercedes 307 (not a sprinter the old square shape no turbo diesel) for miles on the A19 uk , more snow on the floor n snowing so hard I had to use my flask of coffee to thaw out the frond windscreen less bother than you're having here.

I have the 2023 x-line Telly. Lifted 2 inches with an aggressive off road tire on 18s. Hasn't failed yet

Would of been cool to compare a more capable audi like a q7 or q8

Sunday mornings with TFL. Can’t beat it

These are good videos to watch after a day at work.

The Land Rover is brilliant when it works 👍

The more I see videos like this, the more I adore my ‘04 Sequoia Limited. It will take me as far and maybe beyond what those brand new, expensive, fancy vehicles might go.

Oh come on guys! 13:40 - it's all about proper tyres. AllSeasons or AllTerrains are not meant to perform in snow or ice.

Snow tests should include the vehicle's ability to make multiple stops on the uphill and downhill stages. Real-world snowy road conditions have the driver sharing the road with cars that "get stuck" and have to back down or otherwise be avoided by the test 4x4. Davison Road at Mammoth Mountain after a snow dump is a real-world challenge. Downhill traction control and Hill Descent must also pass "the test."

The Nathan method prevails! Good job Andre! Haha

You made Audi look bad. Haha. But also drove it respectfully and like someone that works hard for there money might. Thanks Guys !! I'd never think to buy one of these but it's interesting

Matt Watson from CarWow already proved any car can go through snow if it can get enough traction through better tires.

Need to do the same test with a 2023 Pilot Trailsport! Honda AWD is always superior to Kia and the 2023 trail sport has underbody protection

Showing LOVE for the channel thank you for another great video once again gentlemen. Have a blessed day everyone

Put a proper winter tyre and repeat the test...

Medium is the Allroad. Kia is the soft road imho. The original A6 had locking diffs and low gear in the manual version. Proper tires and that would give the LR a run for its money.

Once again, Roman brings a vehicle to a place he knows he won't drive it.(for all the right reasons) So why bring it at all? To make the point on camera (again)that you should not? IF one has NEVER watched ANY TFL videos and this was the 1st time EVER watching and wanting to know if the Audi is worth buying for a family hauler up the ski slopes to a cabin on non plowed roads, the answer is no. Outside of that, the best advice is to buy something "affordable" with AWD or 4WD, put on snow tires with "chains" and bobs your uncle. End of debate.

It would be nice to see how a proper quattro with the torsen center diff and the rear sport diff(audi electronicaly controled mechanical lsd or tvd) would do. The current a6 allroad, doesnt have the legendary audis quattro system anymore

You have to drive that Audi like they are meant to be driven, I.e. harder and with less trepidation and it would go right up that hill. A Q7 which is more similar to this two will keep up with the Rover.

I want to move there! This looks amazing, to drive or hike.

fair assessments of all 3 cars. this helps me with narrowing down my decision on which car i want to buy.

Was really impressive with my old mk1 V60 cross country. With some all seasons it was pretty much all the car you'd want

I want one of the coats that Roman is wearing! LOL......love the color and the TFL logo.

Awesome testing and video!!!

Yeah I do get on Sunday and tfl is the first thing in the morning. Thanks guys for the content.

You should have taken the good old VW Touareg with winter tires there too. I bet it would have been able to go as far as the Landrover.

Love the show it’s the first thing I look forward to watching on Sunday mornings.💯👍

Nobody gets a Telluride for 55. Demand is so high and the waiting list is long. The dealer markups on Tellurides are among the highest of any vehicle anywhere. 55 isn't even in the same time zone as what you'll pay.

That is why cars like the Kia are so popular.

all season tires? Who would choose those on snow and ice?

Outstanding test! Really shows the difference within the segment

Thank You🎉👍👏🙏👌

Didn't Audi want to give their car a fighting chance and at least provide it on winter tires?

When I had a Telluride, the mud terrain worked better in the snow than the slippery/snow mode.

The Audi could have made it up that entire hill, as well as the kia. Not sure why you even brought the Audi to drive it 1 foot and then say the classic "I don't want to damage it" line. So you're not actually going to test it or show us anything? ok, leave it out than.

Where did Tommy get that Land Rover coat?! I want one!!

Low range is not your friend here. Wheel speed and momentum in the snow and sand.

The amount of people that think their crossover with "adventure" trim can handle off-roading is quite scary.

All season tires are not meant for any country road in winter.

I feel you are still the overall best channel that tests off-road vehicles, but the other channels seem to push theirs a little harder during testing. While you guys quit and say, "I'm driving an $82,000 vehicle, I can't push it," they say, "I'm driving an $82,000 vehicle, so I need to be a little careful going up this hill." They get closer to the showing the full capabilities of the vehicles they are testing, whereas you stop short many times in your way of testing. Still, overall good job and good comparison.

Can you please test RAV4 hybrid AWD system on rolling racks? Thanks

The money you save on the Rover you could put into lift and wheels. I love my wife’s Palisade but the large wheels and sport tyres make it awful when the roads are bad.

Buhanka! Should have taken the Buhanka as well! Great video thank you!

I can not stress this enough. TIRES, TIRES, TIRES, TIRES. If you put the very same brand and model of tires on each of these vehicles, they would perform nearly identical, aside from ground clearance. So I reject this review as accurate. I owned a 2015 Chrysler 200C AWD for about 6 years including in Kentucky where we once had a dump of 28" of snow that I plowed through with no issues as well as in Utah where I once again went anywhere I wanted to with the correct all weather tires.

Needs at least 3 inches of airlift and 18" with taller sidewall and more aggressive peak rated all terrain .

I'm on my forth Audi with quattro AWD, and one of them was an A6 allroad. I think your fear of damaging the car was hurting your effort. Totally understandable, but I could have done better having owned one for four years.

This test just says get winter tires

I just tested the AWD on my Escalade. Definitely surprising

Are we really surprised as which one would make it?

Great stuff! At $80k+ I want my SUV to not only eat the dirt but the snow as well! But then again if I had that kind of money, I wouldn't be worried about scuffing it up.

I'm bummed that we haven't seen more done with the WL Grand Cherokee. Seems it'd be up y'all's alley.

I’m pretty sure that Tommy could have made it up there if he was driving like Andrey did. Also, it never looked like Andrey was going through the same deep snow as Tommy. The Kia is really impressive, especially for being a Kia. I just love that interior as well. And the AWD system works great on it. That Quattro system on the Audi just looked awful. That’s a shame, it used to be one of the best, but not anymore.

I wonder how my GX460 would do in that !

Take a look under that Kia. It’s not meant to go anywhere off-road. Compare it to a Jeep Grand Cherokee or 4 Runner on a hoist and it’s clearly visible.

I don’t have a cabin so I guess I don’t need to worry about it

I'm sorry about saying this, but Tommy just doesn't know how to drive on snow and ice! Where did he learn to drive? I grew up in Western NY (near Buffalo) and drove a lot in Canada and the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains, and one of the first things that I learned about driving on these types of surfaces and in rather deep snow was: 1.) DON'T FLOOR IT (keep it slow and steady with no abrupt acceleration attempts), and 2.) AVOID TURNING THE STEERING WHEEL FROM SIDE-TO-SIDE WHEN THE WHEELS START SPINNING.

Like Andre said....childs play...!! Get on it.., that Audi can drive those flat snow covered roads... !!

HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY EVERYONE ✌️

Roman it must be a age thing because you & I are close to the same age & I still have a lot of my toys from my childhood. Still have battery operated trucks that I would take the batteries out when I got finished playing with them.

A fair test would have had them all on the same all terrain tires

I bet tommy wishes he was driving a 4runner trd. Off road. Lol

Whats our clearance Clarence?

I cannot believe the Audi costs 82k or the prices of the others. The car mfgs are out of their minds. Instead of getting a new car every 3 years, I'll be getting one every 5 to 7 years.

Nice video guys. I love the Audi AllRoad but let's be honest, it's way out of its element. Now replace the all-season tires with snow tires and driving snow covered tarmac should be no problem.

Maybe try a q5 or q8.

I want to see that Telluride xpro go head to head against Bronco Sport

I think Tommy was too soft on the Kia but I can only see what the video seems to show. Was the KIA really “given the beans” like the Defender? What is evident is the Defender was driven much harder to make it up the course. But that’s just my opinion. BTW, I watch all your videos and am a fan.

Love the blue coat

Now like that y’all back at the trail need use it’s more often

Tommy hits the gas so hard in the Telluride. If it had snow tires and he took it steady getting some speed up on the low part of the hill, it would be no problem. I've done a similar trail before in my X-Pro. Also don't worry about the snow in the center, it will just glide on it. It helps to have the skid plate option installed on the Telluride because it smooths out the rough snow chunks as you go and gives warning in case you hit anything too rough. Just saw the other guy do pretty much what I was saying to do but in the Land Rover. It's possible.

Where are Nathan and the dog?

Roman - why did you bring the Audi ?

So how capable is my bone stock 2020 Ram 1500 Laramie 22” rims, how much more capable would it be with 18” rims and Mickey Thompson Baja boss AT tires?