Many reviewers have been lukewarm toward the Suzuki SX4. I don’t understand that, and neither does my friend, Denise McCluggage of Autoweek. We each own one, love it, and rate the car VERY highly.

I had to go up to Lake Tahoe a few weekends ago and when my editor told me there was a Suzuki SX4 available I jumped at it. Since Suzuki bills this SX4 as a crossover, I thought it’d be a great car to take it up to the mountains.