Posted on 05/22/2008 2:33:10 PM PDT by Cagey
Very nice. Will the tranny, engine and all remaining accessories function beyond 100K?
I've tried the “reach back and swipe” move from the driver's seat many times and never once made contact. I should have owned a Mini-Cooper.
Elitist cr*p. Nothing is better than a mini-van with TV’s and a cooler full of sandwiches and drinks.
You sit upright and high, so it is very similar in that respect. However, it drives like a car instead of a truck, so its a bit friendlier on the bones and arms after 1600 miles.
I have an older Suburban (97), but a 05' Sienna, so its not totally fair. The kids have DVD's in the back of our headrests and a better separated climate control than the Suburban had. They certainly have it a hell of a lot better than I did as a kid with six of us packed in a sedan, traversing Nebraska and Colorado without AC in July.
I even stop for bathroom breaks every couple of hundred miles unlike my dad. My kids are spoiled.
LOL!
Last year I had use of a Chrysler 300C (hemi) and I put 1300 road trip miles on it.
Saaaa-weeeet!
Cruised the Ozarks like a Beemer. Handled very well with lots of power. And 25 MPG highway at 65-70 MPH.
No road-trip list is complete without the 300C.
The key is to tap the brake at just the right moment, causing the crumb cruncher to lurch forward, bringing his or her head into the swipe zone.
Timing is everything. It might take a little practice but, once mastered, it's a blast. ;O)
I took my two Labradors on a 2100 mile cross-country trip in a Chevy Avalanche. They had the back seat, but were still within petting or smacking distance. Loads of room in the covered pickup bed for luggage, dog food, guns, ammo, etc, etc. I was comfy in my six-position seat with arm rest. Had a GPS and 6 disc CD changer.
Surprisingly, only one SUV made the list, and that was the Lexus RX.
“It's like a mid-sixed luxury car, only elevated and with more utility,” said Shenhar. “But it drives. It's very quiet and it's very refined. It rides comfortably. It has a quiet engine and gets pretty good fuel economy, too.”
My wife has one of these and last year we went on a roadtrip and it was a pleasure. Except when she wouldn't let us get back in the car with sand on us.
On the way back I definitely did not see how fast it would go on the highway and found it would do over 100 and still not wake her up. No I definitely did NOT do that.
Jaguar XJ8
This will require a vehicle that can kick some ass and to do so read Car & Driver or Road and Track, not a lame publication like Consumer Reports.
Isn't that the lame magazine liberals and soccer moms read?
Hey, I forgot about that one. A no frills vacation carriage.
I couldn’t imagine putting our family of 5 in an extended road trip in any other vehicle than our Expedition EL. I love it! The gas mileage stinks at 19 mpg, but the comfort and drive is absolutely fantastic.
Anything by Tom Petty is a good start.
The same one that rated the '84 vette as unacceptable because it had a small trunk and bad gas mileage.
Useless magazine.
Not as useless as 'Car and Driver' or 'Road & Track' though. They love every car made by one of their advertisers (all of them).
I don't remember that but as I recall it was slower than a Mustang and a lot more money.
If Consumer Reports ever pushed a car to the limit they would probably soil themselves in the process.
Perhaps some mustangs in a straight line. Mustangs corner like Sedan Devilles.
I’ve got the best road trip vehicle. It’s a Chevy Explorer conversion van with a 22-inch flat screen TV, DVD and VHS players, and Playstation hookups. It’s very roomy, comfortable, and its V8 gets 18 mpg on the highway. It can tow up to about 6000 pounds.
Note that the SYNC system isn’t that great at interfacing with iPods (the de facto standard music player) as there have been several consumer complaints AND it’s “Powered By Microsoft.”
Considering how well the *last* Microsoft-powered in car system worked (iDrive v1.0)... or, rather, DIDN’T work, do you REALLY want to have Microsoft in your car?
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