And my Boss🙂, one of his vehicles is a Yukon Denali. It is nice and comfortable and doesn't look to bad.
Who else hates CUV's?
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I can't stand any vehicle that is needlessly jacked up just so that the clueless driver can see over traffic. I hated SUV's (or as I call them view obstructing vehicles) from their inception and have been waiting decades for their demise. While the full size SUV popularity seems to be fading, manufacturers have discovered that you if jack up a car, the clueless drivers feel more "comfortable". The fact that they have poor handling seems to be irrelevant.
Not to stray off the crossover topic, but why do people buy 4 door pickups? All pickups around here are almost all 4 door models, and most with beds too short to haul anything. I don't get it, unless you work for a company that needs to send a crew to a job site, what is the point of 4 doors? Or are pickups now second cars and are no longer used as pickups, but family haulers? Then why not buy a Suburban or Explorer or to get back on topic, a silly assed cross over?
Not to stray off the crossover topic, but why do people buy 4 door pickups? All pickups around here are almost all 4 door models, and most with beds too short to haul anything. I don't get it, unless you work for a company that needs to send a crew to a job site, what is the point of 4 doors? Or are pickups now second cars and are no longer used as pickups, but family haulers? Then why not buy a Suburban or Explorer or to get back on topic, a silly assed cross over?
Pickup's are even first vehicles here. Almost all are 4 door and 4 wheel drive. I had a Dodge Caravan when the kids were little but screw them now, our comfort comes first now🙂.
I will speak from my own experiences on this.
I long for the day when cars have more ground clearance. The roads in my part of the country destroy themselves every winter, and we are lucky if the road commissioner can be bothered to throw any road patch down to fix the worst of it before the next year wreaks even more havok.
These are the roads that I deal with:
My wife had to trade in her AWD Charger for a Jeep Compass, because she kept dragging the undercarriage on the roads and couldn't travel from the highway to home over 20 mph.
I have a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a full size 4 door Chevrolet Silverado. I use both of them quite a bit, and while I would love to have a modern economical car, my road and my lifestyle is just not a good fit for one
I own what I believe to be an SUV, an 08' Trailblazer. Full frame, inline 6 cylinder (280hp +/-) and plenty of towing and cargo capacity for my needs (boat and utility trailer for general hauling). It just rolled 165K and it's not going anywhere too soon because I can't find anything but a Colorado pickup to replace it. I'm not a pickup truck fan, but may end up with one and add a fiberglass cap to cover the bed because GM quit building frame on SUV in the Mid Size category.
My wife drives a 14' Impala 2LT sedan with a 305hp V6, nicest sedan we've ever owned. Good looking, speedy, comfortable and handles really well. (Don't get me started on GM killing off the Impala once again and closing up factories while the CEO brought home millions)
The whole crossover thing is a mystery to me, while my TB handles lousy and uses a bit more gas than I'd like, I enjoy it for what it is and what I use it for. I can't understand why anyone wants one just to drive. Full size pickups and SUV's (Tahoe, Suburban etc) in every other driveway are just as baffling. Huge, 4 wheel drive, expensive, gas pigs doing nothing but traveling 1-4 people around town for school, kids sports, groceries etc. Funny how, around me, most of those cars are parked in the bad weather. Opinions are like rear ends, everyone has there's and that's mine. 🙂
My wife drives a 14' Impala 2LT sedan with a 305hp V6, nicest sedan we've ever owned. Good looking, speedy, comfortable and handles really well. (Don't get me started on GM killing off the Impala once again and closing up factories while the CEO brought home millions)
The whole crossover thing is a mystery to me, while my TB handles lousy and uses a bit more gas than I'd like, I enjoy it for what it is and what I use it for. I can't understand why anyone wants one just to drive. Full size pickups and SUV's (Tahoe, Suburban etc) in every other driveway are just as baffling. Huge, 4 wheel drive, expensive, gas pigs doing nothing but traveling 1-4 people around town for school, kids sports, groceries etc. Funny how, around me, most of those cars are parked in the bad weather. Opinions are like rear ends, everyone has there's and that's mine. 🙂
Your roads must be terrible, it takes a lot to bottom out our AWD Challenger. Our roads are bloody awful and we have miles unpaved all around us.
They really are. With a broke state not contributing any money into the road system and a local road commissioner that doesn't know his a-hole from a pothole, the only reason that the secondary roads in my township are passable is that most of the residents own tractors and will blade the roads around their houses.
I do what I can with my tractor but it only weighs 1100 pounds so it is not ideal for pushing dirt around.
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