The gas prices in my area are my fault? Interesting.

“Instead the Y is just a 3 that has a hump-back.”

Not sure if you’re arguing against or for what I was talking about... lol

I’ve considered that, especially in the extensive amount of driving I’ve done in our family’s ‘52 Buick Super. The difference is that cars were taller then as a limitation of engineering, basically. Lower cars existed, but they were costly to build. My grandpa still raves about his old ‘48 Hudson Commodore because it…

Same as Bradley, 24 mpg average. We don’t do a lot of straight highway driving though. 

In your view it isn’t about vision. I’m just talking about what I’ve heard from people I know. For every one person I know who owns a crossover/SUV/truck for accessibility reasons like that, there are 5 others who just want to sit up higher and have some cargo space.

Yeah. Just sucks, because even my in-laws were impressed with our Regal TourX, and liked it more than their Rav4. But preconceived notions about wagons and/or lower ride height keep it from selling well. That and Buick’s total lack of any sort of effort to actually sell them. Next car will probably be a Volvo at this…

Your knee issues would qualify to me as a “handicap” at least in the way that I meant it; not literally someone in a wheelchair, just a physical ailment that keeps you from otherwise being able to enter a lower vehicle without unnecessary pain. That’s totally reasonable to me, and I can definitely admire your other…

I mean, I’m not a kid myself. I’m in my 30s, a parent of one, soon to be two. I know all about getting kids in and out, parking in tight places, commuting, etc. What I was saying is that I think the difference in ease of entry is negligible to most people who aren’t handicapped, and clearly not a big enough factor for…

True, I forgot about the CX-5's nose. I wonder if it can get away with it a little easier since it’s higher up?

It even has brown wheels. This is pretty much a manual transmission away from Jalop perfection. I’m surprised it doesn’t come with a manual at least in Europe, but maybe I shouldn’t be.

I hear that talked about in reviews and stuff, but what I hear from the people I talk to is that they just want to see over traffic and that kind of thing. Besides, my 89 year old grandpa drives a Buick sedan and doesn’t want a crossover. Couldn’t these 40-50 year olds just try a little and get in something lower?…

Oh man, really only a 25 cent difference? I haven’t seen a gap that small in the last several years. Here I consider it a bargain if I can get within 50 cents of 87 octane. Some stations charge a full dollar more.

Then consider me complaining about a small minivan without sliding doors. I’m not saying it’s irredeemable, but I am saying that it would be better and look better if they didn’t have to make unnecessary concessions to ride height.

That’s awesome. I think we’re only up to 2k so far (got it right at the end of December), but it has been a fantastic car for us so far. Such a breath of fresh air. And I’ve literally had random people come up to me just to ask what it is and comment on how nice it looks, implausible as that might sound for a normal…

Some aspects of the higher ride height are better for getting a kid in and out (parent of one here, soon to be two), which I’ve noticed after getting my son in and out of my mom’s Equinox, but I also just don’t find it to be that hard in a lower vehicle in the first place. My daily driver is a ‘96 Grand Prix coupe…

I forgot it was you that wrote that article! That was a big influence on us eventually choosing to get a TourX for ourselves. We also toyed around with the idea of a used Volvo V60, but the deals you can get on year-old but brand-new TourXs are pretty compelling.

That is why I included it.

Now that’s hot.

But I can literally see just fine in my car. This isn’t about me trying to be smugly superior; I’ve had the same daily driver for 14 years (the TourX is mostly my wife’s car, and I’ve had other cars at the same time as this one, but it has been my primary for that long, minus a few months here and there) and I didn’t…