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That’s great, but you have a second car to cover the things your primary car can’t do! That might make sense if you do a daily commute that makes the convenienc
by matthewowen 3y ago
That’s great, but you have a second car to cover the things your primary car can’t do! That might make sense if you do a daily commute that makes the convenience and running costs of the smaller car worth it.
In general I see a lot of snark about people driving (eg) trucks around that people assume they can’t possibly need. But the reality is that people buy their vehicles based on the most challenging routine thing they need their car to do. I mostly only have four people in my minivan, but the extra space is great for road trips or when the grandparents visit. A lot of people have trucks because they want the towing capacity a few times a year, or they want the space to haul dirty stuff.
IDK, I find the dismissiveness of “must be compensating for something” a little tiresome and honestly kind of incurious.
- api 3y agoI was intending to joke about how the auto industry caters to image and fashion not utility and many cars are encrusted with things people don’t need… whether it’s being excessively big and jacked up or a bunch of bloatware on an infotainment system. What you say is somewhat true but we really do have a ridiculous oversized car issue in the US. The irony is that many of the people who really could use these trucks can’t afford them. They are high priced status symbols. What I was ultimately getting at was that the car industry does not want to sell practical cars. The margin on those is lower. They want to sell puffed up chonkmobiles or overly complex bloatware machines. Then they want to double dip with surveillance. Enshittification for cars.