Tires. All day, every day.

Just got my first EV a couple weeks ago (2017 Bolt) so far I’ve been very happy with it even in cold northern Indiana it still has more than enough range to get me where I need to go (and that’s with the battery limited by both the recall and hill mode). I think Honda has been and likely will be the last one to really…

Agree with your thinking, 10 years ago. The next 10 years will see a massive shift. Once you go EV, you don’t go back.

This is what you say when you don’t have a product to compete with.

Hang on, let me pull out my tiniest violin for the rich guy who isn’t happy with the off road vehicle he bought to drive to his mountain chalet.

I’m not sure what he’s complaining about here.

Lol, elevation in WV. He also has a 2nd place here in CO so he does know what more elevation is like but still.

How do you purchase a car and the dealer doesn’t register it to you? I thought that was automatic.

LOL so true. McCandless without question was roughing it in the middle of Alaska, tens of miles from the nearest human being. Walden Pond is about 1-2 miles from the town center of Concord. Thoreau probably could have just walked 15 minutes in any direction to find a hot meal.

It’ll mean more roads. And with resources being devoted to roads, it will mean fewer trails and less trail maintenance.

No is it people not knowing how to practice leave not trace camping:

This!

My MIL just paid more than $400,000 for a Class B motorhome, which she will park in her back yard 360 days a year and drive 15 miles to the river two weekends a year. She describes herself on FB as an “avid outdoorswoman.” Money well spent.

They are also awful. They put you up in the wind and are noisy because of it, they throw off your vehicle’s center of gravity, they have to be disassembled if you want to go anywhere, they kill your gas mileage, and taking a pee in the middle of the night now requires the extra effort of climbing a ladder.

The one silver lining here is that most of these rigs aren’t getting used much. When the pandemic winds down, I’m looking forward to a used market full of lightly used rigs sold at saturated market prices.

I’m fine with the richies getting in on the fun. If it keeps the businesses rolling and the products evolving, it’s all good. The WORST part of the overlanding culture IMHO is the stupid “Tires and Tents” type meetups. What is less outdoorsy they meeting in a parking lot and seeing who has the most gear.  Lame.

Henry David Thoreau was the original glamper. The cabin on Walden Pond was a 20 minute walk from his family home; his mom regularly brought food, cleaned and did his laundry. The land was served by a rail line; and was wasn’t some backwater wilderness - it was owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

As long as they do not trash the outdoors. All this increase in people camping has been trashing the outdoors. Tread lightly! Also I do plenty of overlanding with my jeep and about $300 of camping gear. 

Toyota New Zealand have been doing this for decades. Given that they have a stranglehold on the rental car market here, they take the ex-rentals run them through their old assembly plant, refurbish them and sell them with a new 3 year warranty called ‘signature class.’ They also have a programme where they do the same…

Amen! In theory, of course. There’s more value in an automobile than the sum of its parts. Same goes for a house! We really need to get over totaling autos. A headlight should not cost $2800.