We Americans are such wimps. I travel to Europe quite a lot and it warms my heart to see Porsches with ski racks cruising the Autobahn in January on their way to the Alps.
Get some Blizzacks and some cheap replica rims and drive that puppy year round.
BTW, no insult intended, just making a general statement. I can't say what I would do if I lived in the great white north.......