Future purchase
Apr. 28th, 2013 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
narcasseIf the only difference is the road tax, and the fact that I'm going to need to stump up for park assist and power tailgate with a vehicle of that size, I should probably start considering an SUV as my next car purchase. Simply because of the way I drive.
I've managed to damage one of the hubcaps on my car twice because, I've finally realised, that I drive like I have the ground clearance to mount a high curb without difficulty. Instead, because my car only actually has a wading depth of 30cm, I just end up grinding the hubcap against some old, cobbled, village curb until sheer pig-headedness gets my wheels up onto the pavement. It would probably also help with the fact that when I go away for a day trip, to visit some sight of interest, I tend to come back with my car splattered with mud. At least with higher ground clearance and larger wheels there'd be less muck high up on the body and less stress on the suspension when I go hammering down country roads full of potholes and flanked by steep grass verges.
All that said, I'm not sure I'd be too easy on a standard SUV anyway. In fact, I'd probably be better off buying a more hard wearing vehicle, though, with the one I have in mind, I ought to check the approaching government regulations that might not make it viable, first, and weigh up the drive in terms of the motorway driving I'd be doing during the working week.
I've managed to damage one of the hubcaps on my car twice because, I've finally realised, that I drive like I have the ground clearance to mount a high curb without difficulty. Instead, because my car only actually has a wading depth of 30cm, I just end up grinding the hubcap against some old, cobbled, village curb until sheer pig-headedness gets my wheels up onto the pavement. It would probably also help with the fact that when I go away for a day trip, to visit some sight of interest, I tend to come back with my car splattered with mud. At least with higher ground clearance and larger wheels there'd be less muck high up on the body and less stress on the suspension when I go hammering down country roads full of potholes and flanked by steep grass verges.
All that said, I'm not sure I'd be too easy on a standard SUV anyway. In fact, I'd probably be better off buying a more hard wearing vehicle, though, with the one I have in mind, I ought to check the approaching government regulations that might not make it viable, first, and weigh up the drive in terms of the motorway driving I'd be doing during the working week.
