I live in a fairly high-income area, and almost everyone drives new cars. I’ve noticed a trend that all new cars have stretched out longer, and it really bothers me. It’s just a very ugly trend.
They look for locations close to your zip because a zip doesn’t reveal your entire address and your entire address isn’t needed.
Then it gets an idea of your whereabouts and if you want to purchase a vehicle it looks at dealerships near you I think or if you order I think you can have it shipped to a dealership in your area.
I love how JD Powell has a stupid award for everything (and they don’t mean anything, they’re just a stupid marketing company.)
Want to have a best truck award but don’t have the best truck? Well, we can sell you a “Best Truck under 4 tons” award. Don’t have the best truck under 4 tons either? We have a “Best truck under 4 tons under $45k” for you…
Biggest problem: I’ve seen several kill their own batteries. Like 3V across both main and aux batteries. That’s not really recoverable without battery replacement.
General quality control is bad (I have to be careful not to give details here. I like my job).
Subjectively, I just don’t like the vehicle. It’s the flagship for everything wrong with the auto industry. It’s too big, too heavy, handles like shit, too many things to distract you from actually driving the fucking thing.
A friend of mine had a Wrangler Rubicon - built to drive straight up mountains, but never left a paved road in its life
At less than 5 years old, the oil pan rusted out. I live in an area that salts roads in the winter, but even 10 year old 80’s cars back in the 90’s didn’t rust out that bad
That little turbo motor rules. I have the eco boost in my Ranger and it’s just a great pairing. Smaller truck (it’s about the size of a Tacoma) with the eco boost = great experience. Tows my side by side with ease and I get decent highway mileage, which is great for our trips and getting to my office which is 90% highway.
Years ago when I worked for a dealer one of the salesman pointed out it’s the “F series” which includes everything with the F all the way up to delivery / commercial trucks. Nothing is going to touch the volume of all of those different categories of sales combined.
I recall renting a Grand cherokee in 2016 and being disappointed to find it was like driving a caravan in a lot of ways. Nothing like the older Grand and regular Cherokees I use to own.
The “new” Cherokee seems to be like a slightly larger Patriot clone. It’s like the movie industry creating new movies with old names. The new stuff is usually not as good or completely different.
I know its easy pickings to make fun of those that treat a sled dog like a show dog. And to have a utility vehicle and/or a luxury vehicle is fine. But everything about the design is conflicted between utility and fun. I got a rental ford flatbed truck, it was a weird experience. To me it’s cabin felt more like a toy than a utility truck but the bed was no frills. It was very capable to get its (mild to moderately difficult) task done. The cabin played an electricity sound effect when opening/closing the doors. It confused me multiple times into thinking the thing had an electrical short. I must have failed to recognize that it’s actually the car refilling its flux capacitor. (its fine to have luxury, but gimmicks are an odd thing to put into this identity crisis of a light truck.)
You jest, but cars absolutely are a modern status symbol. To the point where getting a better car is the first thing the average American does when they make enough money to jump up a class. It’s woven into the fabric of our society.
From the perspective of middle going to upper class, fuel economy is a staple of the class that still worries about paying for gas.
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