What do you drive?

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We live rural down a long farm track that does not get cleared by the council, mile to the main road. After getting caught out for the first few winters with our city cars we bought a VW Touareg. Now i LOVE the car, had it for a couple of years now it is a 57 plate so we never bought it new but is starting to spend more time in the garage than in the drive and I am seriously thinking we may need to think about getting something else. Was just wondering what people drive that is 4x4, big boot space for putting sacks of animal feed in, good in snow, safe for kids and reliable! Do not care about kerb appeal or if something is fashionable as we see more sheep than people round here Dh said he would never buy a disco as they are always in the garage, think they may be keeping my touareg company

I live in the BC Rockies and we get a ton of snow. Basically you rarely see tarmac at all for around 6 months. We have 2 Hondas - an all wheel drive CR-V and a (fwd) Civic. They both have studded winter tyres and handle very well on winter roads. We do, however, also have a tractor with a snow blade attachment for our long driveway

We have a lovely silver mitsubishi warrior with a cab, we are now onto our second (just fancied an upgrade after 3 years rather than it broke). Can chuck everything from dogs to bags of sheep cake in the back of it.

At lambing time we can chuck 16+ lambs in the back to stop them getting squished by the sheep in the main trailer if we are moving stuff between fields.

Deals with snow and mud pretty well, only got it stuck once.

Agree about Discos.

If you are wanting something a bit shorter I've heard the shoguns are supposed to be quite reliable too.

Currently have a Ssangyong Rexton (google it ). Previously had a Shogun, Isuzu Trooper & Diahatsu fourtrack. The Rexton is good - way better than we thought it would be - tows 3t with ease and floats over mud where I know we had problems with the Shogun. Don't let the price put you off, and don't buy the newest model if you need to tow a lot. A lot of car for your money. In fact thinking about it, haven't even put it in low-box yet - is all wheel drive, and so far has coped with everything in that.

A rather grubby Toyota carolla hatchback, currently with summer tyres but we put winter wheels on for dec- march. Our lane is decentish tarmac but not gritted and gets no sun in DEC & jsn so any snow / ice lingers.
Since getting winter wheels dh has always been able to get out to the main road and off to work. If it were really deep snow we would be going no where.
Last clue of years dh and a neighbour have cleared snow off the tricky corner junction with main road, I walk up and grit it after school in freezing weather.

Currently a 14yr old honda CRV. Had it for 3yrs now and it's taken a fair amount of punishing and has been very reliable

Anita - our current CR-V is 14 years old. And I know "our" 16 yr old one is still going strong, as we sold it to another local. It had done 450k km (280k miles) with no engine issues, when we sold it, and that was 18 months ago!

And with reference to your "fair amount of punishment" comment - ours starts reliably at -30C, so, yep - pretty hardy! No idea how the non-ancient newer models compare...