My '07 HHR, which just clicked over 65,500 miles last week, has never balked at our Buffalo area winter weather. She lives outside since my garage is too full of crap and she's routinely encased in ice and snow this time of the year. Last week I made the mistake of leaving my Sirius radio plugged into the power outlet and her battery went dead. A jump restored it and she's been fine since. I replaced the stock Firestones with Goodyear Assurance Triple-Treds before last winter and those tires, coupled with traction control, have kept me going in anything old-man-winter can dish out. AWD? 4X4? Don't need 'em for Tropicar.

 

Drive my 09 SS all year round. Its ok in a few inches of snow but not anything heavy.....

 

Year round.... heat cold wet dry .....also still have my 89 s'rado that only sees heavy duty use( Still have 1/2 tank gas left from early LAST year!!)....havn't had any driving problems in winter yet...now the LS sucks cuz of the tires.
At this point I don't want to drive anything else.....well, until spring when the bike gets dusted off.....

 

Year round for me. Its extremely fun to drift this thing lol

 

My '09 SS is nestled in a heated garage while my Scion xD does the salt and snow routine....if it gets 2 deep the '96 F150 4WD get's it done.

 

My 08 SS is daily driver. It does just fine even with all the snow we have had in the mid-west this winter.

 

Well my new to me 06 is a everyday driver seems ok in snow, but will get new tires before next winter.

 

Careful with Toyotas, Nissans and Isuzus when exposed to salt. Speaking from 1st hand experience, it will probably run forever, but might eventually break in half due to frame rust (bodies stay beautiful, but the frames turn to dust).

If you have a son that is a good welder (or if you do it yourself), then frame reinforcement may not be a problem, which is what we do.

 

We don't have the winter you have and rust out is not much of a problem regardless of make or model around here. My xD has 34,000 miles on it and averages 35MPG compared to 3500 on the HHR and it's 25MPG so the xD gets the nod as a daily driver but heck, the HHR SS is still NEW! Every time I see one crusted in salt and snow I try and picture mine that way.....not yet....

 

I agree, drifting is fun in these things! Just a little application of the parking brake while turning really gets them started... Although my right arm is sore from my wife hitting it