Winter comes too fast

ZCanadian

Yup - a car is meant to be driven... but it's not realistically possible where I live.

Might be fine in an urban setting, where roads are cleared within hours of a snowstorm and stay pretty much like summer except during the worst weather. I envy you.

I live on a farm. I'm 2+ miles from a highway, and they stop plowing my sideroad when the school busses get cancelled. Being to the lee of one of the Great Lakes, this happens a lot. My commute is 21Km each way on rural roads with a few steep hills and plenty of deep ditches. Many times I've had to abandon my 4x4 pickup truck at the end of my 1/4 mile driveway and walk in through waist deep drifts. Occasionally, I wake up to cars & trucks dumped at the end of the lane when they couldn't make it any further.

We already have snow pack on the road (yes, this is way too early), and these conditions are prevalent in my vicinity through late March, with salt usually going down into mid April.

It's laughable for me to even consider driving a sports car for at least 5 months of the year! Even if I could, what's the point in throwing salt all over the frame, when it's too cold for the summer tires to hook up, and there's always the chance of a snow squall hitting before I can leave work?