• Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com
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    7 hours ago

    SUVs the jack of no trades and master of fewer. They’re such a strange concept, forgo the ease of a hatchback, the space of an estate, the performance of a sports car, the utility of a 4x4 and in return you get to kill more kids when you hit them.

    I’m clearly not the target market with my '05 Civic that, because I live fairly rural, I put winter tires on. But, I don’t understand what I’m missing. The wealthier around me are all in them, the rest of us are in hatchbacks and estates.

    • NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk
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      1 hour ago

      I’d been bullied into renting a small SUV as we were 4 friends travelling abroad for a wedding. Thankfully the rental car lady had more sense and seeing all our bags threw a Fiat Tipo estate at us. That thing swallowed bags, very impressed.

      We’re sweating our 10yr old SUV and then moving to an estate… as long as my wife agrees :)

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      5 hours ago

      A lot of them are basically estates these days. The names have all become mixed up to the point of being effectively meaningless.