 I bought this as we live in the snow belt and it was a 4WD.  It did go very well in the snow, slips on rainy roads though.  In 35 years of driving I have never had to have a car towed.  This has been towed from my house twice and this time the transmission is gone.  It is 6 years old with 120,000 highway miles on it.  It has never towed anything, been driven hard, etc.  I now do not have a trade in even and no vehicle.  I am going back to Honda's with my purchase that I am now forced to make this weekend as $9,000.00 to replace transmission and blue book is only about $7,500.00.  The Outlander does have good cargo space and was happy with that, easy to drive (when running) and as I said, good in the snow.  Seats are hard, we figured they would break in but they never did.  My bluetooth works on the drivers side but not the passenger side.  Very disappointed in this vehicle.