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I bought an overwhemingly average and boring but very adequate Mitsubishi ASX six months ago. I got slated. Its awful they said. Useless as a 4x4 they said. You dont need a 4x4 anyway they said. Should have bought a hummer they said. Should have bought a golf they said.
It's a great car. And last weekend whilst the rest of the South West of England were stuck in their cars on the A303 for 20 hours freezing their asses off because they thought it was a good idea to go on a roadtrip in the middle of a red weather warning and blaming the emergency services for not having arctic exploration vehicles available on demand to rescue them, my grifriend was the only midwife on her ward that managed to make it in to work in deepest darkest Somerset for her nightshift without the help of the territorial army.
I'm chalking that one up as a win.
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Tbf to the usual contributors, there was some heavy trolling on your queries.
If you were pissed off by anything I said, I apologise, I don’t intend to rub you the wrong way.
At the time you said you were looking for a car with a loftier driving position because that’s what your gf wanted. I don’t think I argued with that, I just disagreed with that concept. I think the reason why SUVs are so common in this country is because they do give you that experience but I also think that it’s not needed. I personally think, so this is entirely my opinion, that it contributes to the don’t give a fuck attitude of lots of drivers. I’m not saying that your gf is like that, but I think a lot of SUV drivers are like that. That elevated position and the overall size of the vehicle conveys an image and feeling of safety that I think is there but can also adequately be provided by a saloon, hatchback, or estate car.
With regards to your final point, any 4WD with a proper diff, electronic or mechanical, with winter tyres should have been absolutely fine in all the recent conditions. Crediting that to SUV performance I think is misguided, all you’re getting is a raised ride height allowing greater ground clearance. As would a lowered MK7 Golf R on semi slick tyres if my instagram is to be believed.
Yes your new car comes across as a bit bland to me, but it’s doing what you want, so that should be the end of it, it’s just not my cup of tea, but who cares what I think?
Should you have received more helpful advice when you asked? I guess if the people on here who deem themselves regular contributors want to be seen as helpful, then yes you should have, but let’s get to the real discovery, it’s a dirty secret to let out but let’s face it:
I don’t think any of us are the font of knowledge that we think we are.
We all might have particular niches we know a lot about, we all probably spend too much time on the internet reading about cars, watching videos, but we’ve all got a bias towards what we actually know about. None of us are writers for AutoCar or whatever the run of the mill magazine is these days, a lot of experience is internet experience or hearsay apart from some really specific stuff.
That’s how it comes across to me anyway.
I’ve probably only helped 1 person in 9 years and he’d probably argue the volume and value of the help I’ve given, and that’s @jambon
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epic post and definitely one for the win column
NurseHolliday
jonny
From skim reading this thread over the months the only way to get forum general approval is to buy something old or fucked and post pictures of the painstaking lengths taken & £££'s spent trying to bring it back to a former glory.
Anything newish in good working order will be met with disdain.