Here in heavy snow and rural mountain fly-over country, they can take my 4WD Jeep Wrangler from my cold, dead hands.
My choices are the 2008 Mercury Mariner Hybrid, 1999 F150 4x4 and 1998 Explorer 4x4. All of them are serviceable through the months when my street is covered with 6 inches of ice plus as much new snow fall as has occurred the previous night. When I arrived from San Diego with a Saturn SL2 and SW2, I got caught short on the first 6" snow fall. I couldn't get out of my driveway. I've had no repeats of that problem with the 4x4 vehicles. It's Spring now. When it isn't raining, I'm riding my motorcycles for casual transport. The Mariner serves to fetch a week's worth of groceries. That's a bit over the top for a motorcycle.
The NYC weenies can put their noses up at the SUV. It's a perfect compromise in my world. I wouldn't live in their world.