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Into the Dust

OVER THE PAST DECADES SUVS HAVE GONE FROM purely utilitarian people carriers, built solely to transport their payload across terrain that other automobiles couldn’t be driven on, to oversized status-symbol cars that barely leave the tarmac in today’s bigger-is-better world. Naturally, this change in market perception has diluted the go-anywhere nature of the utility vehicles that we knew from 20 years ago, trading off-road capability for on-road comfort and spawning a segment of soft-roader, front-wheel-drive SUVs in various sizes.

But what if you want an easy-to-drive car that the wife can take grocery shopping, one that can comfortably get you to and from work through

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