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The other is the amount of models available by all manufacturers, which make buying confusing and I think delays car purchases. I used to buy a new car every two years, but once went four as I just didn’t want the hassle of trying to work out what to buy. I don’t think marketing departments have understood that confusing the buyers will lead to less sales.
On the spare wheel point, I am unsure if the cars we have, have spare wheels or not. But it’s one of those where I don’t want to know really as I don’t like the idea of not having one and so I’m like burying my head in the sand.
Manufacturers have cut one too many corners in omitting a spare wheel, sealant is crap.
(Personally I'd love an AMG estate...)
At least they all look the same these days so it doesn't really matter which one you buy. /s
Now, fuck half lying down in my fucking car when I can sit properly and actually see out of the damn thing. Also fuck changing gear, no gears is the way to go.
Also, after two estate cars, fuck cars so long in modern car parks you end up sticking out halfway into the road and then can't open the damn tailgate anyhow.
The standard of drivers on our modern roads, generally, is utterly appalling. The people who buy massive SUVs to be bullies, the German car drivers weaving in and out of traffic like they are in some kind of race, and the fact nobody can keep a 2-second gap, the anger, the impatience... a nation of dickheads using the least efficient and least environmentally-friendly means of getting around and seemingly so in love with it they will never let it go...
...but, nice day today, eh? Might go for a drive.
The point about the drivers is interesting and I’m a complete contradiction here. I haven’t seen an SUV driver being any different to any other driver.
However I have a classic mini and an Aston and you really are treated completely different by drivers dependent on what you are driving. To the point where I will move the mini on soon as a percentage of drivers just don’t recognise you as a road user and there is a danger with driving this car.
RAC man is away with wheel to get temporary valve fitted at Kwikfit. I'll then have to book it in to get pressure sensor valve fitted... Modern cars eh...
Can't remember the new tyre & fitting cost, but it was under £60 all in.
I could have got a cheaper wheel, but held out for one in good order that was a match for the others, just because it seemed right to my sense of symmetry
Edit: photo of wheel in situ, with extra stuff including Silky saw for opportunist firewood 2015 Mk3 Fabia.
For years, the only real SUV was the Range Rover. The Germans wanted some of that luxury market (profit margin), and hence the original Q7 and X5 launched as their premium product rivals to the Range Rover. The subsequent smaller versions allowed other consumers into the "luxury" and other manufacturers similarly followed in.
But somewhere along the way, "luxury" and "expensive" seems to have become confused, one does not mean the other.
It's also easier to build in the various safety requirements and sensors/tech (and now batteries) into a larger vehicle, so we're probably stuck with them.
The Range Rover, for all its virtues, came long, long after the Japanese had mastered the art.
Toyota have been building Land Cruisers since 1960 - i.e., a full decade before the first Range Rover, and Nissan started making Patrols in the early 1950s.
Nobody takes a Range Rover into the outback, you need something tough and reliable: Toyota, Nissan, Subaru, maybe one or two others. Range Rovers are for swanning around in the leafy suburbs dropping the kids down to their ballet lessons.
As soon as I see that little Uber licensed disc.......I know what I will see .....a head buried in an iphone / screen map with no idea either how to drive or where they are going until the app tells them ............
then they just either turn on the spot with zero indication or stop dead in middle of road without warning or do U turn without looking.......especially when on the bike I avoid them like a plague
tell the Dealership “do you want the deal or not? spare wheel or not?”