I do traveling sales into new england and all of upstate NY. So even though we got a mild winter this past year I have been caught in some pretty bad snow storms in the past 3-4 hours from home and having AWD sure would be nice. I could finance something and significantly increase my budget but I put so many miles on a car a year it just seems smarter to pay for something out of pocket and basically drive it until it dies. And my current car is about to die :lol
Yea it seems that way to an extent. A WRX can be had for under 6k these days but I think at that price it would have to be a pretty beat WRX. I think a 1.8T A4 that has been well maintained would be my best option but reliability really worries me with those. I wish the V6 version got better gas mileage.