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Originally Posted by lotsofmagnets
no. if you look through the rest of this thread and heaps of other threads you´ll see plenty of people boasting about how their car gets 21mpg. if any car of mine was getting that i´d be looking underneath expecting to see petrol leaking out.
but the rest of the post is 
and thanks to your attitude and that of many around you i have to deal with a road full of suvs in my golf and volvo. thank you.
so for the once in a while where the load capacity of an suv (which is matched by a normal wagon anyway) you will drive one around most of the time with 4 empty seats and lots of air in the cargo space. i hardly think the "100% of requirements" rule is logical, let alone sane.
and your point? will your suv get 40mpg going up that hill, thus nullifying that my golf will get 39.9? be serious! and as for "comfort," the golf has everything i need to get from a to b in comfort, including comfort itself. define "comfort" please.
good on you. i´m sure you made the best choice based on what you wanted.  |
Usually I just disregard people who chop posts up to nit-pick each point.
1) Reading is fundamental. I get more gas mileage in this CAR than the SUVs around us.
2) No way in hell your golf will get 40 in the mountains. Most people with that class of compact get 30 in the conditions we use our car.
3) 30 is a lot closer to 22.5 than 40 is to 21.
Without a vehicle fulfilling 100% of our requirements we would have to have more vehicles. No thank you.
Again, it's not an SUV, it's a car.
I define comfort as being comfortable. IE not jimmying my 6 foot 180lb frame into a subcompact car. Not sitting elbow to elbow with the front seat passenger. Being able to actually sit in the back for more than an hour. Those things are comfort.
Feel free to be smug all you like but not everyone can use a subcompact car. Don't forget, all of my <5 mile trips are made by bicycle unless I have to haul more than 30lb or so. My next cargo bike will change that.