Ben Coombs took a Jaguar XJ6 for a chilling trip across the frozen Baltic Sea, and suggests you to do likewise. Why? Well, why not...

Put on your warmest coat and your studded tyres and join us as we reveal ten of the world’s best winter road trips.

Following in the wheeltracks of the Ice Road Truckers, Gavin Conway tackles one of the most extreme drives on the planet: the Yukon’s Dempster Highway.

Lapland is a winter wonderland that will thrill kids from one to 92 (as Nat King Cole liked to sing) with reindeer, elves and snowy skids all within easy reach of Rovaniemi.

It’s minus 30 degrees centigrade, but I'm sweating profusely. I'm driving a car with no roof at a speed that must boost the wind chill factor to a thoroughly frostbiting figure, and yet things continue to heat up inside the cockpit.

Drifting across a frozen Lake Baikal might be the drive of a lifetime but you’ll remember it for all the wrong reasons if you don’t follow an expert guide.