Elana Scherr: Why Off-Road Is in, Even When People are Mostly Driving On-Road

There seem to be a remarkable number of outdoorsy types around these days. Apparently, everyone is hiking and camping and overlanding and trail riding and skiing and boating and ranching and hunting. Go to the dentist’s office or the grocery store, and the parking lot looks more like a national park, littered with Honda TrailSports, Mazda Meridian Editions, Chevy Trail Bosses, Subaru Wildernesses, Nissan Rock Creeks, Volkswagen Peak Editions, and a variety of letter-and-number combinations that involve a nubby tire and a plastic-clad wheel well, mostly trims introduced in the past few years. The outdoors is in, and we’re seeing a lot of …

Source: Car and Driver