This is Chao at NJ, I have a Subaru Forester for 6 years, just did 60 thousand mile major maintenance, SUV is just more expensive to maintain when compared with a sedan. Subaru forester is excellent in controllability when drinving in the muddy, curve, snowy, narrow, snowy up-and-down dirt road, that's what I did with this Subaru. Stability is excellent while moving up-and-down plus sharp turn. This is what this car is made for. Driving in highway at high speed is not that good, wind noise is pretty bad.