Rob, If 4WD is compulsory, and I think in Canada it is, than a Subaru WRC is so much more exciting, has character but might not be so frugal if you use all its possibilities.
My former hairdresser drove a TT (and the current one a Citroen C5), and it also the car of our famous extreme right wing politician with the artificially blond hairs. I would not want to be seen in one....
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