Besides the common advice of buy all the Honda or Toyota you can for the money, what other options are good?
Looking for something roomy, not too low to the ground, husband wants AWD because of all the hills/dirt roads/ice. It seems like a lot of vehicles in our price range/recommended models from here are FWD. We are undecided on car vs SUV. Daily driving is minimal (work is 10mi away) but we do go on longer trips a few times a year.
I know this is super wide open, we very suddenly need to buy a vehicle and I'm feeling in the weeds about it. Reliability and safety are probably our biggest concerns. So where do we start? What should we absolutely avoid? If you were going to buy a $10-15k v