Until 10 years ago me and other 3 friends used to go snowboarding weekly, we live in Rome and the nearest ski stations are in Abruzzo, about an hour away in the

Until 10 years ago me and other 3 friends used to go snowboarding weekly, we live in Rome and the nearest ski stations are in Abruzzo, about an hour away in the central Italian Appenines. One of the places we went more often is called Campo Felice, which is famous for its extreme weather conditions. Sudden snowfalls are pretty common and they can be very heavy. But the main danger are temperature drops, sometimes temperature can go as low as -33 C, forming thick layers of ice on the roads. We got stuck there a few times because either the car doors were completely frozen and would not open or it was too cold and the engine refused to start, not mentioning the suboptimal traction of our 2WD cars. To solve the problem we put some money together and bought a used Fiat Panda 4x4 (https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b4/d6/dd/b4d6dd1544d24d3c8d73dadda8f95599.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/564x/b4/d6/dd/b4d6dd1544d24d3c8d73dadda...), it's an affordable 4WD with many features that rival with much more expensive cars (excluding of course the luxury stuff). We never had a problem after. The new model costs only ~16 thousand euros and it improves a lot over the old one which was admitedly quite spartan, but for me it was a feature not a bug.