Using the definition of solution and the qualitative properties
established in the recent paper [17], some existence
results are obtained both for crossing radial solutions and for
positive or compactly supported radial ground states in $\mathbb R^n$ of
quasilinear singular or degenerate elliptic equations with weights
and with non--linearities which can be possibly singular at $x=0$
and $u=0$, respectively. The technique used is based on the papers
[1] and [12]. Furthermore we obtain a non--existence
theorem for radial ground states using a technique of Ni and
Serrin [13].