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/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.
> Then I bought a SUV. It's a 4WD <...>
SUV doesn't imply 4WD. Most 4WD are SUVs, but lets not pretend that most SUVs are 4WD, or anything close to it. Most people buying Qashqai's or RR Evoque's aren't buying the 4WD models.
"Why even enjoy anything? Why even drive? Why even go on vacations? Why even eat meat? Why even have kids? Why even socialize? Why even live outside of the matrix instead of having all your entertainment & nutrients delivered directly to your brain/veins? Why even live?"
inb4 "no arguments": parent post isn't very heavy on arguments either, it's basically just passive-aggressive moralizing.
So, generalizing your moral outrage with a passive aggressive personal attack? You win.
Just leaving this here. It needs no further explanation.
I didn't get it until recently, and this is exactly it.
If someone wants to drive an inefficient car, let them enjoy it, or push for legislations that tax those cars, you are being judgmental without affecting real change.
I don't believe I've stopped them. (If only it were that easy!)
No, it's a fair response to the the laiz a fair comment "in order to consume more than is morally acceptable (a second home, especially when others have none, but regardless), I need to drive an environmentally unfriendly car".
second or first or gazilionth home doesnt even matter.
Then I bought a SUV. It's a 4WD with and ample trunk. Now I can use my property to my liking according to my job time constraints rather then weather conditions.
But I sense your sub-sonic tone. I think the vast majority of SUV owners lives in a city with perfect snow removal in winter (if there even is snow at all) which hardly justifies owning such an ineffective car.