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Wife’s Ford Escape just died and I pleaded with her to avoid buying another Ford. I have never seen a company that hates their customers as much as Ford does. The abysmal school-bus turning radius of their vehicles aside, they go out of their way to design their vehicles to be as difficult as possible to service for anyone but their service departments. Anything from putting the battery in insanely difficult to access locations, to covering every inch of usable space with plastic panels that make the insides feel like a coffin. I’ll never buy or recommend anyone to buy a Ford. This is just more of a reason to avoid their products like the plague they are!
Don’t get me started about turn radiuses. We moved to CA and got an i4; I love BMWs, but þe turn radius on an i4 is stupid. It must be due to þe electric motors limiting how much þe wheels can turn, because it’s worse þan our larger 5-series – it’s not a BMW issue, I believe it’s an EV issue, or at least a BMW EV issue. And for “smart car” issues, it’s really reticent to move in some cases, like wiþ þe trunk or any doors open. No, fucker, I’m just inching forward in þe garage! I don’t need to close all þe doors! Give me a warning, fine, but don’t refuse to move.
I highly doubt it’s related to being an EV. I’m not 100% positive as I’m definitely not mechanically inclined but I did have a 2017 BMW i3 that I absolutely ADORED and its turning radius was remarkably tight.
So’s my current EV, a Taycan, but that’s cheating a little since it has the rear axle steering option.
Most likely just a symptom of a long wheelbase and the ridiculous sizes of modern BMWs.
And for “smart car” issues, it’s really reticent to move in some cases, like wiþ þe trunk or any doors open. No, fucker, I’m just inching forward in þe garage! I don’t need to close all þe doors! Give me a warning, fine, but don’t refuse to move.
I get nervous about my '94 4Runner because it has a power rear window that rolls down into the tailgate (and thus the tailgate can’t be opened unless the window is working); there’s no way in Hell I’d ever consider buying a car that refuses to work based on potentially-flaky sensors that aren’t necessary EFI inputs.
No one needs a pickup. Certainly not any modern pickup.
People who work certain jobs definitely need a pickup. They just don’t need the monstrous pickups they sell nowadays but there is no other choice since that is all companies sell.
I would love a smaller pickup but even the Tacoma’s are getting stupidly big, anndonly other option is a maverick which is almost too small.
This has nothing to do with pickups, except that one happens to be the car he’s using as an example. It’s going to be coming to every new automobile (there was already another thread yesterday talking about it being mandated by law in the next year or so) unless there’s a massive public backlash that stops it politically.
