If you never go further off road than Sainsbury's car park - DON'T bother with a serious 4 wheel drive, and if you have MUCH more money than sense try a modern Audi or Merc 4-wheel drive. Guaranteed to get stuck on the first bit of sticky stuff.   Even the shit like Korandos and the self-dismantling Mahindras are better. Lada Nivas were very good indeed off road but not usually for long since bits dropped off and the monocoque shells rusted - although the Welsh wizard Kim Conway made some very capable ones with about an inch of shiny Hammerite on the underneath, wax-filled chassis members, and modified twin-cam FIAT engines. Steam cleaned underneath every time they went off-road which was most weekends in some of the trickier bits of Wales.