There's 1 post I made Jan - Mar 2016 timeframe where we had an humongous amount of snow.
I had to take my CX-5 out as my son (8 year old) had VERY high fever. My car was (and is) running Toyo OEM tires relatively new as it was just 3 month old. It was a total blizzard with visibility very bad. Already accumulated about 3 feet of snow. I drove out of the garage in reverse, did the usual K turn and then drove 2.2 miles to pharmacy and back. While driving, I was plowing SNOW in fron of me. My hood was constantly under attack from snow collecting there. My car had to be stopped/reversed and then rammed thru the snow. This was the 1st. 1 mile till I hit highway where there were few snow trucks already pushing snow. My both headlights/total front grille was under snow for this 1st. mile completely - just to give you all an idea as to how much snow had already fallen!
I don't think there's ANY car in the market today more capable than CX-5 when it comes to AWD system, except those who are designated off road capable like Jeep Rubicon maybe. My car was slipping: yes but only when the weight of snow it was trying to push got too heavy. There's a stretch where I had to climb, the road goes up but CX-5 was able to do that also.