Hey Forest: I'll chime in with our decision of a few years ago. We wanted the 4 x 4 Jeep four door. It was just coming out. So, we chatted about how often would we be off road, vs. hopefully, staying on the road. It came down to 99/1 on road. So, we thought that maybe we would settle for something that allowed us to carry our gear conveniently, like tennis rackets/shoes, bicycle pump,helmets gear, extra jackets, clothes for hiking, biking, partying etc. We came up with the idea that we would just rent someone else's jeep for $100 a day, and enjoy the better ride, better gas mileage and reliability the other 99% of the time. So we settled on a Subaru Outback, manual transmission, because the automatic's can not be towed all wheels down. So, it works for us, and we are happy to go off road on some terrible trails, beating someone else's jeep up for $100 a day and then just paying for a massage lol.
As Wally says, that's my two cents worth and I"m sticking to it.
David
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