To address only one of your concerns, I think the apparatus that would load these would be some kind of wheelable A Frame with a winch fixed on the top.

It would also be pretty hard to find a Datsun willing to accept 2 large rambunctious dogs

I had a 96 mazda 626 (previous gen to article) and it was a cool car, like an accord but a bit quirkier. Where it wasn’t like an accord is that it became too expensive to fix at a young 80k miles. Shame. You really don’t see any of these on the road anymore for this reason I assume.

I work for a unionized elevator company and the union pay and benefits etc is excellent. Being a union elevator tech is the highest paying blue collar job in the US. But the mechanic is still responsible for hand tools. The company buys all power and specialized tools. Obviously a much better deal for the mechanic.

This post is why I casually like the VW busses but will never buy one. The pricing is beyond absurd for a tin can shitbox with no horsepower.

Brought to you by the same country that operates Schindler and Thyssen Krupp Elevator https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/world/2007-02-21-eu-elevators_x.htm

The ride difference there is probably because the engine is in the back. And then you lose frontal crash intergrity. Which is ok, don’t get me wrong I love those vans but it’s also not made anymore.

I bet the NV1500 etc rides way better on American highways where speed limit is often 70mph or above. Huge disadvantage to cabovers is they ride like a hay truck at fast speed. Less driver fatigue = safer, more miles per day, more efficiency, more worker production

You guys are also overlooking a major aspect of longer hood advantages: comfortable ride for interstate long hauls. At 75mph a Cab over bounces around like a hay truck. A longer hood will ride great. Less driver fatigue, safer better more miles covered

Any thing that vibrates that much at idle and has that poor of ergonomics...never understood why anyone buys them.

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He called exposed belts “treads” so I don’t really think he’s grasping the situation enough to make a sound judgement

Years ago my dad had a Lexus GS430 and got rid of it because he kept getting stuck in the snow. High torque rear wheel drive, never thought twice about it. The day he’s trading it in i notice the summer performance tires. He still doesn’t believe me that was the issue and only buys AWD now

Its not about the car as much as how soft of a compound the tires are from the factory. High end performance cars sometimes come with soft performance tires that wear out super quick. My S4 came with soft summer performance tires that were super grippy but lasted 15k. I put on some harder all seasons and got 60k out…

Or they don’t have the part you need in stock

theoretically it would be the same because he was running away. Hard to argue you are fearing for your life shooting someone in the back from 20 yards away. however some states have ruled pretty generously on the stand your ground laws...

My parents have a neighbor that owns a corvette, and it literally never leaves the garage. It’s an early 1990s model. When a NASCAR race comes on television he will turn it on and idle it in the garage for like an hour just to “listen to it”

They should give you Alfa swag just for successfully finding your local Alfa dealer

Just the fact that there is so much lack of brand familiarity and apprehension, the dealers need to set up test drives super easy, this isn’t going to be like selling a BMW 335. It’s unfamiliar.

I went into an Alfa dealer legit to test drive one, they had one Alfa, base trim, which isn’t the one I would want. Was on the showroom floor and they acted like an act of congress would be required for a test drive. So I left. Oh well.