Because the pattern of use has changed.
Eventually the populated area will grow to encircle the airport.
Step 1 - move next to airport
Sort of a tangent: it would’ve been cool in hindsight if airports were planned to be located on the opposite side of a ridgeline from a populated area, to shield from noise and air pollution.
Lets be real and fully recognize the Chinese government will always have an adversarial relationship with the west and will do anything to win economically, including manipulating markets via state sponsored pricing actions, massive intellectual property theft, espionage, and currency manipulation, etc., etc.
Hyundai, Kia, Genesis are absolutely killing it with their styling lately. I mean, the market overlap between a lot of their models is confusing, and it seems like there are still some quality/cost cutting issues; but boy is their stuff nice to look at? Seriously, BMW, you guys need to poach any designer you can from t…
Honestly this is extremely tempting as a commuter car. Extremely tempting.
This thing would look great if it either had the taller green house of a more typical SUV - or - the ride height of a wagon. It’s got some weird proportions right now but is so close to being really good looking.
Any unloaded pickup with manual 4wheel drive. That way, you can f*ck around all you want with RWD, but once it gets serious, you engage 4 and you can get yourself out of almost any trouble.
RWD all the way.