BF2S Forums Car Talk 2021

Pickup cancer has affected Australia now, half the people are driving sluggish lumbering monster trucks and crashing them a lot.

The roads and carparks just aren't big enough and they drive like shit at the best of times.

My pickup, ~20 years old, was like $5000-ish used. No lift kit, no coal rolling. It's been through the wringer with multiple office moves, hauling tools, supplies, and the occasional trailer pull. I like that I don't have to constantly be renting trucks for these reasons. I don't like people creeping on my canopy blind spots, or driving in cramped cities/towns and trying to parallel park there.

Personally, no reasons to drive a pickup, my next vehicle would not be one. I'd love to have a car on the side to but it's just more insurance and maintenance.

The '23 Ford F-150 electric starts at $70,000 …

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I was looking at cars and looked up top selling cars in the U.S.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/g3200 … cars-2020/

Can you guess the top three highest selling cars in the U.S.? Also, why are F-150's so expensive? MSRP on a base model of one of those is $29,000. Yikes. It's actually more expensive than a STI and the Subaru looks less gay.

Also what inspired this post

My brother sent me a snap yesterday of a truck driving around here in OC. It had a sticker on the back and he didn't know what it was, but recognized the stylized S from the nazi SS. It ended up being a Hitler Youth sticker. Brazen, even for OC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_SS_P … tlerjugend

a mid size crossover with AWD and high clearance is almost 100% the next car I will get. It's super practical for myriad reasons.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

a mid size crossover with AWD and high clearance is almost 100% the next car I will get. It's super practical for myriad reasons.

You can tell people you're borrowing your wife's car while your truck is in the shop being modded.

A truck hugging the center line blocks a lot more view than a car. It hinders the ability to see for passing and if they hug the center line they are probably going slow in my area.
I always keep to the right side if someone comes up behind me fast so they can see. They have plenty of sight but even then they don't always pass, just stay 1second behind vOv

My line of sight gets blocked by hedges, fence lines, and power poles. Creeping out to check for traffic is just a part of driving life for me when I can't avoid those spots.

It's kind of rude to tailgate or match speeds on someone's blind spot corner even if it's a car you're doing it to.

With some grades, a car creeping up past your side to make a turn in one direction while you're waiting for your turn in the other can block your view of oncoming traffic even if you're in a pickup. It's a reality of driving.

Also let me fix that for you:

Its kind of rude to block a road or intersection with a huge truck.

"Maintain your stopping distances (timing is a neat method), don't overdrive conditions, and respect other drivers" is perfectly valid. Your complaints can be leveled at car drivers by motorcyclists. Maybe everybody should be on a motorcycle.

Don't you take Indian taxis everywhere? Why do you have such a driver's vendetta. I mean I get it if a neighbor is rolling coal into your parents' driveway, kind of a dick move.

You can't see through all cars either. There's a thing called tinted windows, hangars, bulky hatchbacks, car seats. Some of them sit higher than others, and will block a low-slung car as effectively as any pickup. It doesn't take a very wide object to obstruct your view of what's coming.

Your argument actually calls for extreme lift kits on all pickups so people can see underneath them.

Anyway

My Subaru is coming up to 17, engine is getting a bit tired, thats the age I ditched my last two cars - one everything was shot, the second pretty much shot and I was emigrating.

I'd buy the same vehicle again, except its a smidgen small now and a four speed gearbox isn't enough.

My thinking is:

Might as well stick with Subaru, the dealership is nearby, in my opinion they have class leading ergonomics and dynamics, can't really be bothered looking much further. If I had to I'd start with Toyota.

A WRX would be nice, but they're a bit expensive use too much petrol, desirable to be stolen, impractical for daily driving and long distances.

An Outback would be nice too, but they're the 'premium' model so price is premium and so is servicing for no reason except they can. A Liberty is practically the same vehicle at 3/4 of the price.

An XV would make sense but the drivers field of view is stupidly flawed and its a stupid premium over the Impreza hatch for 50mm of extra height and ground clearance.

A Liberty would be OK, its one of the few sedans I don't mind, and compared with the Outback its good value. But if I'm buying a sedan why wouldn't I buy a Camry hybrid? Camry isn't AWD I guess.

Forester is too big and bulky and a bit tall but maybe I'd get used to it, why wouldn't I buy a Rav4 hybrid?

Impreza sedan and hatch - don't like the hatch, flawed field of view, sedan is not bad but won't take a tow-bar which is stupid so I can't tow a trailer so I'd need a hatch.

I'm leaning to the Liberty or maybe a used Outback if I had to buy something tomorrow, maybe my Forester will soldier on a few more years and it'll all be different then.