Snowed in: Five budget 4X4s to beat the freeze with

If the notoriously haphazard predictions of the UK's weathermen are to be believed, the nation could be facing temperatures as low as -10°C this week along with snow fall of up to six inches.

We don't like the sound of that. Our hazy collective memory of the start of this year features a lot of snow and ice and grind and abandoned cars.

It's in that spirit that we've concocted a list of our top five 4X4s for keeping you moving no matter what the weather does this winter. Of course no one wants to be lavishing money on a car this close to Christmas so we've kept the options so cheap that even an Irish finance minister would happily snap them up.

Click below to find out what we went for...