My wife works in a hospital and needs to get to work regardless of the weather. We live in Connecticut, so we get snow. Our 1998 Toyota Rav 4 AWD that she uses during bad weather has 190,000 miles, so even though it's been very reliable, we couldn't risk it breaking down in a snow storm on her way home. We looked at all the small SUV's with AWD/4WD. My wife being @ 5 feet tall was having a hard time seeing out of all the ones we looked at. I mentioned the Subaru, she said she hated the name and didn't want to even look at them. Well we drove by a dealer and i just pulled in, told her it can't hurt to at least have a look. She got in a Crosstrek and loved it. It's been a year now and she just loves the thing. We slapped on some Michelin snow tires on it, and it's unstoppable. Not a single issue, no trips back to the dealer for anything at all. Plus, it has a boxer engine!
