"Wacko" (wacko--)
03/06/2020 at 10:53 • Filed to: None
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"Wacko" (wacko--)
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Actually I do, but the forester is doing it’s job for now
E90M3
> Wacko
03/06/2020 at 11:03 |
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While some people need trucks, a majority of people who buy them don’t need them. I don’t understand the desire for one because of some perceived utility when they may need a truck once every five years.
HammerheadFistpunch
> E90M3
03/06/2020 at 11:06 |
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While I can honestly say I don’t know why you’d want to drive a full size truck on account of their size I can also honestly say I don’t understand this “they don’t use it so they shouldn’t have it” attitude among enthusiasts. Do we not all agree we buy what we like and not what we need?
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E90M3
> HammerheadFistpunch
03/06/2020 at 11:08 |
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I’m fine with people buying what they want, I don’t like people trying to justify it with any other reason than it’s because it’s what I wanted.
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> Wacko
03/06/2020 at 11:09 |
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Meh, I DD’d my Fiesta ST for like, 4 years and it was our only vehicle (the truck was not road worthy).
I transported 5 people at one point in it (David O buchowski, his wife, two kids and myself) and once brought home an armchair in it, which was a very tight squeeze, but it worked.
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> E90M3
03/06/2020 at 11:14 |
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Amen, Cousin. People are sold, choose to buy, vehicles based upon maybe 3% of their driving in many cases.
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> HammerheadFistpunch
03/06/2020 at 11:16 |
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Just as I said to E90 above: people are sold on, and make buying choices based upon like 3% of their driving. Like buying a time share on wheels. Buy for like 75% of your driving. My 22-year-old Safari meets 97% of my needs and it drives famously . And I maintain it thoroughly and preventively.
Boxer_4
> Wacko
03/06/2020 at 11:18 |
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A good friend of mine and always exchange pictures of what all we’ve loaded into our Subarus. We’re always impressed.
I’m slightly disappointed that the newer Foresters don’t let the front seats fold completely flat like the SH did. The SJ allows for mostly flat, but the SH has it beat. The seats in the SJ are more supportive though.
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Boxer_4
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
03/06/2020 at 11:25 |
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I’ve transported a La-Z-Boy in my SH Forester a few times - a 1960s La-Z-Boy, but still. I have yet to see how the Crosstrek compares.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> E90M3
03/06/2020 at 11:34 |
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I just think it’ s way to o easy to tell people how they are using their vehicle compared to how it really is being used.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/06/2020 at 11:38 |
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It’s a nice sentiment, but I think it’s a little disingenuous. Do you really need van space 75% of the time? And this is my problem with the entire premise of the argument: Whats the real percentage match, whats the threshold percentage for acceptability, is it a lifetime vehicle aggregate percentage or is it calculated by the month, or year? Obviously Im being facetious, but the point remains that while a rational person should try and match their needs and their wants, who are we to say what those are at any given time for literally anyone but ourselves.
Chinny Raccoon
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
03/06/2020 at 11:47 |
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I’ve moved a set of dining chairs in my MR2. One at a time admittedly.
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> HammerheadFistpunch
03/06/2020 at 11:50 |
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Short a nswer: yes. I’m not sure I agree with disingenuous as a word choice here. I do not mean to suggest that anybody should do anything, but buying some feature like four-wheel drive, for example, because you live in the Bay Area and might drive in the snow at some point in the future (I did each of those things once) is in my opinion , a costly decision. But it’s the buyers’ to make.
All I intended was to share my own personal calculus for vehicle choice and my vehicle choices tend to be way more pragmatically driven than those of others.
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> HammerheadFistpunch
03/06/2020 at 15:20 |
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I like this question. There are times when I need to haul six or eight people, times when I need to load up all of my tools, and times when I need to buy plywood or sacks of concrete, or whatever. Or load up a washer and dryer both and take them up north on a wet, rainy day. One time, I packed it full of computers, stem to stern, including the front seat and I listed to starboard all the way home across the bridge. And I towed my tent trailer from the Pacific to the Atlantic and back twice. So for my calculations on car buying, personally, that’s so much versatility that I get a bit giddy. But if I’d gone out van shopping and they sold me the Duramax V-12 with one-ton suspension so I could haul extra sacks of concrete that one time, that would be a dumb _for me_ purchase. What I mean to suggest is that vehicle sellers seduce buyers with options that are impractical and they then haul around and maintain those optional features for the entirety of their time of ownership and use those features but seldom. To me, that seems wasteful, but hey: if they’re not rolling coal in my face, then I guess it’s none of my business.