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There are way too many factors for there to be any single objective way to measure quality of a vehicle. Personally, I look for an aggressive appearance, good
by bovermyer 9y ago
There are way too many factors for there to be any single objective way to measure quality of a vehicle.
Personally, I look for an aggressive appearance, good utility in bad weather, and (now) plenty of cargo space.
I'm less concerned about safety and reliability, though obviously I don't want to be driving a deathtrap with loads of maintenance costs. To sanity-check the latter, I look at https://www.carcomplaints.com/ https://www.carcomplaints.com/ .
- mikepurvis 9y agoOut of curiosity, what drives the "plenty of cargo space" requirement? We're a family with three kids and bought a 6-seat Mazda 5 this year as our only car, on the theory that it has almost no trunk space, but mostly we're just bombing around town doing grocery runs anyway. In cases of cargo moving (dump dropoff, IKEA pickup, Home Depot), it's typically adult-only trips, so it's really just vacation that's the case where we need a full load of both passengers and cargo. Since vacation is only a few times a year, we figured we'd optimize for the common case and plan to rent a larger van for those instances if necessary, or look at other alternatives, such as a roof box, trailer, whatever.
- bovermyer 9y agoFor my fiancée and me, we need cargo space for two primary use cases: 1. short-distance hauling of large objects and/or numerous objects, and 2. road trips. It's the frequency of both that encourages the purchase of a large vehicle rather than the rental of one.