Buying a compact car with all-wheel-drive traction used to mean choosing between affordable sedans or basic hatchbacks, yet the market for small AWD cars looks completely different today. Automakers have largely replaced budget sedans like the Nissan Altima with subcompact crossovers, pushing starting prices toward $30,000. To prevent this list from only featuring crossovers, we anchored spots ten and nine with two traditional sedans while listing the crossovers they jump in starting price.
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