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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wagons and minivans - which are great substitutes for SUVs - have a negative stigma because everybody’s parents had one and people don’t want to feel old.

Hopefully the same thing will happen to SUVs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

No need to convince me, I love my v60

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Anything's cool I'm the 100k plus grouping...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Mercedes looks tolerable, although it wouldn't be the car I would choose for that price. The Audi is downright hideous. I would rather pay half as much to get both a Miata for when I want to have fun and a truck for when I need the cargo space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't really claim better efficiency at that point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Still more efficient than the same thing in boxy SUV form.

I was talking to someone last year and doing 100mph in a 5.0 V8 Mustang he was getting better mpg than 70mph in a Kia Soul (about 25). Make an aerodynamic wagon and you're golden.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Huh my parents had a Bronco, don't like that style. Also had a minivan, very good vehicle that I would get for family life.