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Also more than 90% of pickup trucks.

My first car was a Nissan altima, I pulled apart to get running. I wanted to go off road at a friend's property, there's not much difficult terrain, like bouldering or anything, just bumpy and filled with potholes that catch cars every time they hosted large events.

I put a 2in lift kit on it, and after becoming confident it won't get stuck at my friends house, I got a winch that I could store in the trunk, an extra scissor jack, took that fucker to the woods and tried a few trails popular with jeeps and Subarus.

It's crazy what kind of stuff you can get up to if you don't care a ton about the car you're driving. Eventually put the extra stuff in my pickup, and that car slowly got used less and less until it blew a gasket into cyl 5 and I decided I didn't want to pull the entire engine apart a second time.

So has my Audi A6 Allroad, bone stock. Actually, I think I took my Chrysler 300M to places no shiny new grand cherokee will ever be taken and that's a low fwd sedan. People used to ask me if it's been lowered and I told them it was just the factory handling package.

Stock jeeps, besides the wrangler and that pickup thingy maybe, aren't much good off road anyway. Which is fine because nobody who buys a brand new vehicle goes off roading with it usually. The Grenadier folks may be an exception.

Unironically this is just me with arch linux

Btw

My parents bought a Chrysler/ Stellantis product to tow their camper after I told them to buy literally anything else. Unsurprisingly it's a heap of shit.

The engine has a plastic oil cooler - sits in the engine valley, it cracked and leaked oil everywhere at 40k miles. Their plastic intake manifold leaks and sometimes when you start the shitbox there is a strong odor of gasoline 60k. The plastic valve covers leak 70k. Needed an entire front accessory/pulley assembly because the water pump was leaking - made of......plastic 80k. Shocks and struts are shot and causing tread cupping on the tires - 90k. In addition to this, when i drive it around I notice a few things - it's loud as shit. The engine sounds like it has shit timing or a flat cam or something. Exterior noise is terrible you hear everything. It shifts like an automatic from the 80s and it has 27 gears so it shifts constantly. I'm so sad for them but Dad got a great "deal" on it, I wonder why.

"Just Empty Every Pocket," or "Just Expect Every Problem."

Well you just got me to listen to a guy rant in his basement bar for 25 minutes

If you don't "look the part" then people will judge harshly regardless of how (in)capable you are at something.

Goes for a lot of things in life.

Stick with the Subie unless you need a truck bed.

My Dad owned a CJ4 for offroading out in the desert. POS broke down all the time. Ended up getting a Pathfinder and it was more capable and reliable.

Across Africa, Toyota Land Cruisers do the work. Defenders look cool and break a lot.

Glorified hatchbacks with a lift-kit and a cult.

The rubicons do have a good kit and package for off roading, they are rarely used for that when new these days. Locking differentials and thick metal skid plates for example are typically an off road specific feature.

Depends how off road. Cottage dirt road? Yea thats fine. Genuine off road trail with 2+ feet of water in some puddles and rocks/ruts that you actually need some bumper height for? Mini van probably won't cut it.

I'd be a lot more tolerant of people buying whatever they wanted if what they bought wasn't so goddamn offensive and dangerous

huge, loud, blinding headlights, blocks my view of the road, they always fucking pull up past the stop line so you can't see if it's safe to turn right on red, they have to hammer the gas to accelerate decently because they're massive, they can't fucking see anything around them because of blind spots and so they are always trying to back into people walking in parking lots, etc

Their mom rides what?