While I realize a Murano can be good for the weekly trip to the grocery store, I find the grille to be of questionable taste and the offroad possibilities to be limited. Nissan sells so many SUVs I wonder why they have not brought us their highly successful Nissan X-trail. They even sell them in Canada, but not here. It is rugged, functional and comes with real offroad technology like a low speed transfer case. (Optional if all you want is the look.) I think it looks chunky and purposeful without looking like it is trying to hard. (X-terra anyone?) What do you think. To see pictures and an article, follow this link.
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/first_drive.php?page=1&sid=729