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minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·3 days agoI propose we trick our fellow Americans by making smol cars offroady enough to embarrass an F150: Look at them! Who would want a rolling brick over that? And the Ford Focus is already mostly there.
minus-squareAA5B@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoMy stock Subaru can handle more off-roading than most trucks ever do
minus-squareM0oP0o@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoMy old job had me going to a lot of places in very bad conditions and off road. I always drove an audi or a subaru and watched the lifted trucks spin out / go in the ditch / flip over / get stuck / and generally have a poor showing.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 days agoAnd functional! You’re looking at Dakar rally champions, and hatchbacks so unreasonably fast on dirt, their league was banned. This is what actual off-roaders look like.
I propose we trick our fellow Americans by making smol cars offroady enough to embarrass an F150:
Look at them! Who would want a rolling brick over that?
And the Ford Focus is already mostly there.
My stock Subaru can handle more off-roading than most trucks ever do
My old job had me going to a lot of places in very bad conditions and off road. I always drove an audi or a subaru and watched the lifted trucks spin out / go in the ditch / flip over / get stuck / and generally have a poor showing.
Concur.
love this
these look dope af
And functional! You’re looking at Dakar rally champions, and hatchbacks so unreasonably fast on dirt, their league was banned.
This is what actual off-roaders look like.