Choosing a compact suv - need your help

[JohnM]

Di naman masyado halata

My dad was in the same situation kasi. He's looking for a retirement car in that price range. Gusto nya medyo mataas para easy ingress and egress. He and my mom like terrorizing buses on the hiway so it should be stable at speed. That hiway is also notorious for flash floods, detours down rutted farm roads, slick mountain corners and the occasional jaywalking carabao so handling and ground clearance should also be good. Cargo space is not a priority dahil empty nesters naman sila.

The Fortuner and any other truck-based SUV were out because they don't corner that well and they're not easy to climb into. My mom is allergic to the Koreans and Mitsubishi so anything carrying their badge was out. My mom was partial to the CRV pero the new one doesn't look good to her. See where I'm going with this? Halos same choices na lang natira

Forester was out because my mom (aesthetics talaga ang girls hehe) thinks the rear end looks like an FX That left the XV and the CX7. When the CX7 was discontinued the big mouth of the CX5 scratched Mazda off the list. So what do we have left?

Then my brother announced that he was getting married so the purchase was held off until next year to prepare for any budgetary contingencies. Siguro naman by that time medyo ok na ang supply so they won't wait very long. He's planning to get a baby blue Premium.