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[–] rowinxavier@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

True, but when my $1400 Mazda 2 Neo hatchback is sailing past a broken down $140000 off road beast I do admit to a little chuckle. I've taken my mini beast down some clearly stupid paths and it has yet to let me down. I've also never crashed into a roo or gotten myself stuck in a way I couldn't fix because it is only 1300kg tare weight so I can literally push the car out of a ditch if needed and I couldn't possibly do that with one of the urban tanks.