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The corporations made me buy a big ass SUV
They gave you the options you can choose from and they all suck.
There are plenty of options that arent trucks or SUVs
Sure. But where's the option of a sedan where I can detach 75% of it when I just need to drive someplace alone? Where's the electric car with 300 miles range under 30k?
You can hate on trucks all day long, and I do too because trucks suck, but we're still stuck with horrible polluting expensive options that were designed with efficiency of cash flow as their primary goal.
bikes? mopeds, motorcycles? you dont need 300 miles of electric car range. none of this shit is any excuse to buy a big ass SUV
Oh thanks! Here I thought I knew myself, but thanks to you I now know myself even better!
track your miles tomorrow
Me personally? I own a Nissan leaf. I just don't have a presumption to know everyone else's lives.
Ah yes, a single day's travel is the best way to figure out what kind of range someone needs.
that gross overkill, the tons of steel and dozens of gallons of gasoline you're spewing co2 to lug around every single day to travel 20 miles is where our emissions come from. Because once every several months you might want to travel somewhere further and you dont want to have to wait around a half hour to charge
Wrong again... 10 years worth of pollution due to your scenario, doesn't add up to a single Kardashian short jetting to avoid traffic
Most of North America has been built to prioritize the big ass SUV making the alternatives more difficult (farther distances) and often dangerous (bicycles gutters)
What part prioritizes big SUVs instead of cars?
Some suck less than others.
For real, I was looking at the newer subaru models. Outside of the BRZ (which is a rebranded toyota 86) all of em are SUV. It's insane
More like the Toyota 86 is a rebranded BRZ. The platform of both cars are made by Subaru, using the Subaru boxer engine, in a Subaru factory.
Oh my bad! I thought it was the opposite
Crosstrek is pretty awesome though. It's basically just an off-road lifted Impreza. I mountain bike and climb a bunch and some times get onto some pretty questionable roads. It's great to have something that handles that, but also feels more or less like a smallish 2.0l hatchback the rest of the time.
They are definitely getting bigger though this last year, and sad none of them are manual anymore. Luckily got the last model year that was
No manual is truly a shame
Right give me electric hatchbacks and sedans. Then start funding public transit as we fix North American infrastructure gore.
Fix the transit first. It is far more environmentally friendly and it is more accessible to more people.
Look the transit in my town is 3.9 times longer than driving also it is not connected to other towns as of yet. But I will support any initiative to get people out of cars. I don’t want to be forced to drive the one I have. Active transport/transit is the most sustainable and safest way to get around. Damn I really wish I was living in Amsterdam right now.
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Why are you bummed out?
And driving it around needless. Impressing peers is not natural and imposed by corporations.
If anything, impressing peers is very natural, it probably predates humans as a species
I know, it was sarcasm like the comment I replied to. Corporations are not to blame for everything.
Pretty much the only option.
Obama passed some great regulations to improve fuel economy and reduce pollution, but there's different li.its for car type and an SUV is a truck standard so much easier tegs then sedans. That's why you see so many SUV car things. It's bullshit heaven forbid you do the right thing automakers.
Easier to get an car/SUV ev then a sedan, model y, Lexus option, Kia etc are all half way SUV with the functionality of a sedan is dumb.
https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/cars/versa-sedan.html
there's you another goddamn option
the forest is personal vehicles make up the single largest source of emissions in the US, and SUV's are by far the most sold new vehicles currently making up the majority of that.
Americans when you try to get them to stop fucking up people's lives.
The oil companies made me do it.
The worse enemy of public transport and other changes to cities are probably Nimbys and culture.
SUVs and trucks are more expensive than smaller cars.
2000 for a shitbox grand Cherokee vs 30000 for a hybrid.
Why are you comparing used to new? Spend that 2000 on a used Prius