i dont know, ive got a friend with a pathfinder and it is pretty damn shitty offroad, plus i dont mean just pathfinders, but most the cars that pass as suv's, half of them are pretty much mini vans with an suv body, that couldnt offroad for shit.
i have driven an sti, actually ive had probably an hour worth of snow driving in one and even more on the road, and i wasnt that pleased, it was still a great performing car, but im just saying that the evo out performs it in pretty much every catagory easily, if you went and drove them hard back to back you would be able to easily tell the difference, the sti is a great sports car, better than most, but the evo is one of the best sports cars ever made, easy. and evo's arent bad for reliability at all, maybe a little worse than most japanese cars, but still more reliable than most other cars.
and what about a dude in a miata?