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you remove the seats?
LOL What? Do you seriously remove the driver's seat when you are car shopping?
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I HAVE a Jeep Cherokee, and now you've got me worried... XD
If you're only getting worried now, this must be your first Jeep Cherokee!
I love it though, it's really fun to drive.
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I submit that a better measure of high end audio equipment is weight. Top end gear is HEAVY.
To be specific, top end gear has heavy torroidal inductors and transformers to keep the current flowing.
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Well, and it's hard to beat a Civic Si for fun driving, if that's your thing. (2009 here!)
Mine was an 03, hatchback model. Very fun to drive and the stick shift was on the dashboard basically. I only wish I had spent more time driving it more interesting places, instead of to work in that wretched city.
Since then, I've moved to an island on the west coast. Roads are where the terrain allows, and nothing is straight or on a grid. Perfect!
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Well, and it's hard to beat a Civic Si for fun driving, if that's your thing. (2009 here!)
For fun driving, just remember the acronym M.I.A.T.A. MIATA Is Always The Answer
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This is likely it; 50% or more of SUVs are designed for people who refuse to be caught dead or alive in a minivan.
Which is ridiculous--if people would actually test drive a minivan or use it for a few weeks they'd end up loving them. The side doors, back hatch and fold flat seats mean a mini van is a heck of a setup. My wife makes fun of me but if we fly into someplace and rent a car I'll almost always get a minivan.
I don't get it - would you would think you can hose out a consumer car like this, with the fabric seats and all that plastic trim? I've hosed out Land Rovers, but they're clearly an off-road vehicle designed for wading.
The author references the "hose" comment in the 1998 unveiling of the concept car that would become the Element, but I think they greatly underplay the degree to which this idea caught on with the public and in the press, especially in non-automotive publications. I'm pretty sure it was an issue of Wired in the early 2000s where I read about this futuristic new SUV from Honda with, among other clever details, "a floo…
This was such a perfect camping/surfing/biking car, I used to rent them off Getaround. The seats actually folded up and to the side, to make a huge amount of room on the back floor. We also slept in that back a few times when it was cold out, just threw down a pad. Check out the awesome: https://www.core77.com/posts/61976/The-Honda-Elements-Unsung... And not hose able, but the whole back was one continuous flat rubbe…
I hate this car so much. My parents owned one, I mostly rode in back: - nausea inducing rear seating. For several reasons: no ventilation in back (can’t roll the windows down); weird elevated rear bench; overall effect is of being in a dark tunnel, horrible if you are prone to car sickness. - you have to open the front door to open the rear door. Great for when it’s raining! - giant box of a car that seats … 4. - sur…
I've hauled a full patio set, appliances and couches without issue.
My girlfriend and haul 2 mountain bikes + a decent size lab every weekend for adventures. AWD lets us go on wet timber roads and the gate gives you a nice place to sit and change boots/snowshoes/have a beer.
It is OK if not every car is designed for hauling kids to soccer practice.
Why is this car beloved? It's so terribly ugly, and it doesn't have any redeeming features you'd expect from a 4x4 (space, cargo room, clearance)
Because it's like 90% of the utility of an Astro van but it's not technically a van and it's from a manufacturer that certain demographics hold in high regard. It's a van for the people who are too proud to own a van. Edit: I sound like MCM and I don't like it.
That is in addition to offering AWD, stick shift, stow-able rear seating, better MPG, vinyl interior instead of carpet, removable moon-roof, none of which the Astro had.