And I hate their blue-rich eye searing headlights to.

  • qyron
    link
    fedilink
    English
    301 year ago

    Stop buying bigger and bigger cars.

    I drive a station wagon because I need to fit two dogs in the booth plus and entire family in the same car. But this is a transitory need. At some point I’ll either get a small van, for carrying the dogs, or a small hatchback and have the backseats always folded down.

    You should buy according to your true needs not market pressure.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      201 year ago

      " everyone should do thing!

      But not me, I have a particular circumstance that means I need to exempt myself from the logic!

      I plan to stop in the future but for now am certain!

      "

      Everyone buying these cars has some reason that matters to them. They all believe they need it.

      Myself included (similar reason, dogs, kids, family out of state that we need to help often), but I have no illusions that I took the dirty way.

      • qyron
        link
        fedilink
        English
        41 year ago

        The key words here are “matters” and “need”.

        I bought the car I have today because driving my small 4 door hatchback was no longer a feaseable endeavour when wanting to move the entire family all at once. It was an objective need, not something it mattered.

        You can reply I didn’t need to get a family or the dogs. You’re right. But that actually mattered to me, regardless if it was an objective need.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          101 year ago

          As I said, I’m in the same spot.

          My point is that 99.9% of large car owners have what to them seems like an objective need. Humans are super good at justifying our actions, especially to ourselves

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      141 year ago

      I don’t even consider a station wagon a big car anymore. And I bet the vast majority of station wagon owners actually need the space. No shot the average SUV owner needs the weight for anything other than to feel “safe” in their tank.

      • @[email protected]OP
        link
        fedilink
        English
        41 year ago

        I think shifting baselines is a real issue with car bloat. It should be going the other way where a Focus is seen as a mid-size and the like of the Fiesta a compact rather then sub-compact.

    • Yuvneas
      link
      fedilink
      51 year ago

      There are like 2 station wagons on the US market. I’d love one, but I’m not into VWs and the Volvo PHEV wagon is only available as a $75,000 performance wagon and no one makes an EV wagon.

      • qyron
        link
        fedilink
        English
        31 year ago

        You don’t have access to Stellantis FIAT line? The Doblo and Scudo (short chassis model) are pretty affordable and decently compact.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        21 year ago

        I hate to break it to you, but small to medium SUVs replaced station wagons, just taller. According to my insurance company, my “SUV” is a station wagon

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        11 year ago

        The Audi A6, Mercedes E class and VW Passat are available I believe. I have seen A6es and E classes in the USA.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          51 year ago

          The Passat is discontinued in the US and I don’t think they ever had a wagon version of it here. Not recently at least.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            11 year ago

            The newest Passats I’ve seen in Canada are mk5s I think (2005-2010 or something like that). Most common is the previous gens, which is not common at all.

            It’s much, much easier to find and afford a small SUV/crossover than a station wagon body style in North America.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          41 year ago

          Not really, they’re closer to hatchbacks. I also won’t trust Kia anymore. They got better for a while and then suddenly got much worse.

          I hardly ever see a real station wagon in the US anymore. For whatever reason they just stopped selling them here.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      41 year ago

      As someone with one forward facing and two rear facing kids right now - this is so frustrating. I feel like there are so few vehicles that can hold them without busting at the seams and even our minivan makes it hard with getting kids hooked in if they are in the very back.

      I can’t wait until they are all forward facing and I can open up what cars we can have.

      • qyron
        link
        fedilink
        English
        21 year ago

        If I had been faced with such a situation, I would go for something like this or this and be done with.

        Not the smallest but practical.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      -21 year ago

      Or buy whatever the fuck you want, because why not make one part of your miserable life slightly more pleasurable by driving something that makes you smile. In the US, 99% of us need a vehicle to commute because we don’t have access to decent public transportation, so why not drive something you enjoy? Do I need a 500hp Mustang to get me to work and back? Hell no, but it sure does turn that commute into a few precious moments of happiness before I start the 9-5 grind.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        161 year ago

        You could also change your life in a way that sitting in traffic is not your day’s highlight, but you do you

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          -21 year ago

          Yeah because moving is so viable and affordable for everyone these days. It’s not like there’s a housing crisis with massive inflation.

          Oh I forgot I’m in fuckcars, aka one of the most delusional places on the internet.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            11 year ago

            Those who want, find ways. Those who don’t want, find reasons. Why is it, that most poor people live in cities and not in suburbia, when it’s so impossible expensive to live in the city?

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        31 year ago

        Does it actually add that much to your life?

        There’s a big external cost, but if you spend your weekend taking it to car shows or working on it, then I get it - some people play MMO games just for the fishing minigame. If having a mustang is a big part of your reason for being, fine. Mine is to build things for the sake of learning how to build them… Does the world need an AI agent specifically made to be have a strong personality? Not really, most people aren’t even ready for that so I’m not planning on releasing it publicly. But I’m burning the time and resources to make her, because the act of creation brings me joy

        If it’s for your quality of life… Say, your job is to drive around all day, and mustangs strangely have seats that keep you from having back pain… Fine, that job shouldn’t exist but we have the system we have, and I can’t blame someone for minimizing their suffering

        But really ask yourself - is this actually something that makes your life better? Or does it just fit the idea you have of success created from a lifetime of exposure to marketing?

        If that’s the case, I’m sure you felt joy in buying it, and you feel like it’s a sign of social status… But that attitude is poison. It’s like burning a forest because causing destruction helps soothe the anger you have at a world that sucks because of the lack of green spaces… Sure it might soothe your suffering a bit, but it’s ultimately hurting humanity in aggregate far more than it helps you. And what’s worse, is it feeds the system that caused the suffering you seek to soothe

      • qyron
        link
        fedilink
        English
        11 year ago

        If you could truly enjoy it. Stuck in traffic, a Mustang is little more than eye candy and ego soothing.