Originally Posted By: lawman1909
Well with my job I cant just call out if the weather is bad so it is pretty important. My current car which is a cruze barely made it this past winter and I couldn't get up the hill to the actual lot so it was a super big pain. I do NEED AWD/4WD. I'm going to see if I can get a jeep for the same price. Who knows
A CRV will do the job for you, my parents have had a 99 and now an 06, and both would do donuts or shoot up a hill with snow tires. I don't keep up with the current subaru hype, but in the past, some have used viscous couplings which is much less positive than the CRV clutch system, and I know of a couple atx subarus that are now fwd only due to some failure of the center diff/coupling.
For actual off roading, or driving on a sheet of ice, sure, a new subaru is better, but on public roads, a CRV will do 99% of what any AWD/4WD system will do. Turn of the TC and let it rip, the CRV system rewards some aggressiveness.