Ah, If i'm not mistaken here, the salesman is supposed to sell you the car not turn you off of it....geeez...

What year and model you taking about...

 

4x4=AWD right? That means that 95% of X's are 4x4 automatics right? I guess that sales man got every shitty X in town.

 

I dont know about the X having a problem, but AWD and part Time 4x4 do have more problems than you standard FWD and are more expensive to fix. But with every car ever made there will be problems some different some the same.
I had the same engine problem with the3 oldsmoblies i owned, all different year and models. Either its just bad luck, the way i drive, or old's suck?
If you like the car buy it every car will break eventually

 

Your saleman for whatever reason is blowing grey smoke up your tush....(notice I didn't say ***) I'm being nice here ok....anger management is a slow process....