6 must-have car features for surviving extreme cold weather

I’ve spent a good part of my life commuting in cold weather, the kind where the roads aren’t plowed yet and the forecast is already wrong. I’ve driven through blizzards, across mountain passes, and on mornings where the hardest part of the drive was just getting the car to cooperate long enough to leave the driveway. After enough winters like that, you stop thinking about cold as a seasonal inconvenience and start treating it as a mechanical stress test. It’s also a big part of why I live in Florida now.