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Ford said that they stop producing cars for US market some time ago meaning that they’ll produce SUVs and trucks only. As a family person that runs to fruit ma
by p2t2p 5y ago
Ford said that they stop producing cars for US market some time ago meaning that they’ll produce SUVs and trucks only.
As a family person that runs to fruit market every several weeks and brings back a boot load of fruits in boxes it is hard to understand how a sedan can suffice.
Having said that huge SUVs are overkill too, something like Subaru Forester/Outback or RAV-4 seems to be the sweet spot for people with less than 3 children. With 3 children you start looking at something with 3rd row of seats.
- deelowe 5y agoJust to be clear, they aren't stopping sports car production. They did end all sedans though.
- seattle_spring 5y agoThey sure ramped it down though. No more Focus/Fiesta RS or ST stateside.
- deelowe 5y agoI’m guessing we’ll see ev equivalents for that soon enough.
- WorldMaker 5y agoGiven that Ford gave its classic sportscar "Mustang" badge to an EV SUV rather than anything resembling a classic Mustang, Ford seems to be putting a lot of work into avoiding sedans/coupes even in EVs.
- aidenn0 5y agoMy mom would haul enough mulch for our entire garden in a Taurus wagon, which was built on a midsize chassis
- cptskippy 5y agoI fit 8 dining room chairs and accessories in my Leaf. https://i.imgur.com/TzYt8Qi.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TzYt8Qi.jpg
- p2t2p 5y agoLeaf is a hatch back, a good alternative if you want to down size and not ready to go to SUV. For electric stuff I'm waiting Tesla to start delivering Model Y in Australia.
- willis936 5y agoHatches are considered cars. Fords most liked car options were the sporty hatch versions of the fiesta and focus.
- blue-gum 5y agoHatches are essentially a downsized SUV. They are very different from sedan's when it comes to storage of goods. The positive is they generally can hold more stuff. The downside is that it is easier to access that stuff by unknown 3rd parties (break and enter).
- cptskippy 5y agoThe Leaf is a hatch back but it's very shallow. The total volume isn't that different than the Model 3 we have or an Accord I had in the past. The main difference is the configuration with the Leaf being shallow but tall.
- culopatin 5y agoI fit 4 chairs and a dining table in a Jetta. Only took the legs off the table. It can be done, and it is done all the time all around the world. People just want to use their extreme case to justify both ways. We are saying “I fit my whole house in a fiat 500” and they are saying “I eat for 25 people every week so others must need it to”. The reality is that people drive suburbans and Tahoes and they don’t even have kids just because they can. I hate to say it but the best thing that can happen to the US culture is expensive fuel. And I say this as someone who races cars as a hobby and would like cheap fuel.
- byw 5y agoTo be fair most modern small & mid-size SUVs are the sizes of wagons with similar fuel consumption
- p2t2p 5y agoI don't know about US but in Australia all SUVs are marked as "Wagon" in registration papers.
- MagnumOpus 5y ago> boot load of fruits in boxes Hard to believe that the 100 gallon boot volumes of a small sedan are insufficient for a weekly fruit&veg shop - let alone the 300 gallon boot of an estate car or the 400 gallon boot that a compact car has if you take the 30 seconds to lay down the rear seats before you load it... And being a bit older, I do remember being driven into summer holidays with a family with 3 children, luggage and an inflatable rubber boat - in a Fiat 126 (half the length, half the width, and a quarter of the weight of today's giant pick-ups and Escalades...
- p2t2p 5y agohttps://photos.app.goo.gl/NkXauuz2vUALRafq6 https://photos.app.goo.gl/NkXauuz2vUALRafq6 this is what my wife goes through in two weeks. That's boot of my Subi Forester and that is not the fullest it is ever been. During mango season we even take a bit of passenger space. That box of oranges is was 5 AUDs btw.
- thatfrenchguy 5y agoIn the rest of the world you just fold your seats or stack your stuff better?
- p2t2p 5y ago“Stack your stuff better” doesn’t sit well with soft mangoes and “just fold your seats” doesn’t sit well with children in child seats in the second row. Practice is often different from theory. Now having written that and looking at you user handle I realise that you might think that mangoes are firm and you can stack it. Well, those firm mangoes you see in super markets are not ripe, they are green. Ripe mangoes we buy here in Australia are soft, you can damage them with you fingers and I would like to keep them for at least couple weeks.