Elon Musk

my old boss had a series of A4s (had an old one when i started, got a new one, then a few years later she ran over something and totaled it, got another new one) and tbh i did love riding with her in spite of myself. still driving my corolla until at least 2030 though :)

a4 wagon is so classic, my dad crashed mine ffs, only available in the allroad configuration now in this god forsaken country

forced by logic to buy our forester at the end of the lease (worth 8k!!! more used if we sell it than the lease buyout price) but i still want that sweet prius wagon.

station wagons rule, but they have been supplanted by those prettified light trucks aka suvs.

volvo launched a whole new brand maybe trying to avoid ecar buyers aforementioned hangups about luxury cars
Unfortunately, Volvo's "Polestar" (named after their performance division) cars are way overpriced even compared to their existing lineup.

station wagons rule, but they have been supplanted by those prettified light trucks aka suvs.

― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Tuesday, September 7, 2021 5:27 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

crossovers aka tall cars are a plague

real truck suvs are cool tho, if you like that sort of thing

xp iirc they are a way for manufacturers to evade MPG requirements, nothing more

forced by logic to buy our forester at the end of the lease (worth 8k!!! more used if we sell it than the lease buyout price) but i still want that sweet prius wagon.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, September 7, 2021 5:15 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

well you could sell it

buy its freedom and set it free in the Skyforest of San Bernardino

xp iirc they are a way for manufacturers to evade MPG requirements, nothing more

― sleeve, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 7:28 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well people really like them too drives like a car but you sit high have awd space to put stuff etc

I got a used Honda CR-V a year ago and it's the best, most practical vehicle I've ever had by some margin

It's just useful, I don't understand what's bad about small SUVs

Like do you guys really give a shit about this stuff or is it just ilx pretend care type stuff

i personally just dont like how they look or drive or their whole vibe really something very no there there about them, but im in the minority crossovers are the most popular vehicles in this country by far

an outback really toes the line between a wagon and an suv

my outback is so big and rides so high its a borderline crossover tbh, the difference between it and the forester isnt much, all cars are getting so big now, i parked next to a previous gen outback the other day and it was so much smaller and lower

ha xp

The Outback is not considered a wagon, at least the use of the word wagon is not generally allowed in any Subaru marketing

(I work for Subaru's ad/marketing/digital agency)

ha inside info nice, its some sort of car in the shape of a station wagon

kinda reminiscent of this bad boy

https://i.imgur.com/udAiUpH.png

They call it an SUV now so basically everything is an SUV except the sports cars and the Legacy and Impreza sedan. Crosstrek is just a jacked up Impreza as crossover and has been a huge home run

the liberty (rip) was the wagon variant.

the levorg sounds like the goods now. shame you cant get it in the states (i think?)

crosstrek is pretty sick tho i find the styling to be a lil over the top, i was looking at those too but the low milage used ones cost basically as much as new so i went w the outback, and tbh i like having the interior space have slept in it a few times and so forth, crosstrek is pretty small

you can call it what you want but to me this is clearly a wagon (with suv characteristics)

https://i.imgur.com/xFr8DXv.png

and if you go all the way back to the first gen its just a wagon

https://i.imgur.com/Ho3lZZ3.png

as a car driver a really hate not being able to see as well in front of the tall crossover things,
I’ll probabably just get one of the damn things eventually in an arms race capitulation kind of way

soon you wont be able to even buy a goddamn normal car! ford currently has one model in their "cars" category, the famous mustang

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/toyota-prius-lift-kits-are-the-next-thing-in-the-safari-everything-trend/?amp

god I love the amc eagle

it rules

i like my outback more now that i have had the thought that they are the same type of car

mb i can get some sort of wood panel wrap

i drove an 03 forester for years and it was basically just a normal sized sedan that was smushed to look like an SUV, i loved that car

I got a used Honda CR-V a year ago and it's the best, most practical vehicle I've ever had by some margin

We bought our CRV new, and 14 years later, it's still running great. Kinda wild that the oldest kid could possibly go from a baby seat to driving the damn thing.

I should get a bumper sticker for the Benz that says "My Other Car Is A Honda CR-V"

my mom drove an amc hornet when I was a kid. my partner and I bought a new forester last year, the first new car i’ve ever driven. maybe there’s a through line somewhere based on these recent posts

well people really like them too drives like a car but you sit high have awd space to put stuff etc

― lag∞n, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 7:36 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

our most recent car is a honda hr-v and it's not exciting at all but AWD and space to put stuff were basically the top priorities so it works. love my civic but i was sick of going to home depot and doing gyrations about where to put stuff. also had a few experiences with vermont hills in the winter that made me rethink some things.

there is a reason every car in vt is a subaru or a truck

they know what they're doing up there

i bought a barely used subaru legacy a couple years ago and it is basically a very fast tank it rules

well you could sell it

― lag∞n, Tuesday, September 7, 2021 7:28 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol please tell this to my wife

this is me and my wife btw

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESNxmyrW4AIG9eY.jpg

please send her this message for me "sell the subaru and buy the large prius"

I think part of the crossover thing is because getting in and out of a car that’s at standing human height is easier for people, especially if you’re loading/unloading children and groceries, or are old enough to make the “unngh” noise when getting in or out of a car or recliner

yeah def true

I remember being a kid and thinking the little handle over the door was just kind of a novelty in cars, then I become an adult and everyone’s using it to climb in and out of my car.

america’s knees are not doing well

a tall friend of mine upon acquiring his first crossover was like fuck that shit im never getting into a low car again

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/6/60/Very_Tall_Man.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20121217083536

ffs

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/simpsons/images/6/60/Very_Tall_Man.jpg

crossover is much easier on the back if you're loading kids in and out and you're in the US where the sidewalk is like 18 inches about the street.

I’m currently driving an ‘06 Pontiac Vibe that I bought for like $4K over 6 years ago, and it still runs like brand new at over 200k miles. Don’t know if I got especially lucky, but I have heard from car nerds (of the super practical strain) that those were some weirdly good cars in spite of the Pontiac brand mostly being a punchline by the 90s

these ppl seem also v bullish on early-mid 00s CRVs (if you’re looking for stupid cheap but reliable)