Non of this makes sense. I wouldn’t like to know what your main car was if you choose to daily drive a Nissan Navara and felt it was a refined nice place to be. I’m envisioning your “main car” was either imaginary or a Trabant.
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Non of this makes sense. I wouldn’t like to know what your main car was if you choose to daily drive a Nissan Navara and felt it was a refined nice place to be. I’m envisioning your “main car” was either imaginary or a Trabant.
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Non EU6d compliant which is why they stop selling it?
Give over, the Defender is a run away success. Utterly clueless grumpy man you are.
Where did I say it was a refined place to be?
You've clearly not spent any time around a "lifestyle" grade pickup though.
EDIT: This is the interior on my Navara:
The seats are way better than the average for a car and make up a lot for the less refined ride due to only having leaf springs on the rear. If you are cruising on the motorway, etc. it is comfortable especially with the leg room.
Also sits pretty smoothly on country roads and a decently refined engine (unfortunately don't have any good videos to hand):
As for the silly imaginary comment I've posted pictures of 2 of my other vehicles several times on these forums and talked about some of the others over the years.
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Where did I say it was a refined place to be?
You've clearly not spent any time around a "lifestyle" grade pickup though.
EDIT: This is the interior on my Navara:
The seats are way better than the average for a car and make up a lot for the less refined ride due to only having leaf springs on the rear. If you are cruising on the motorway, etc. it is comfortable especially with the leg room.
Also sits pretty smoothly on country roads and a decently refined engine (unfortunately don't have any good videos to hand):
As for the silly imaginary comment I've posted pictures of 2 of my other vehicles several times on these forums and talked about some of the others over the years.
Erm, the post I quoted? The one you where for some unknown reason you felt the need to tell me about your car. The car that you drove daily, but wasn’t your main car… Maybe you drive your other car twice daily
Erm, the post I quoted? The one you where for some unknown reason you felt the need to tell me about your car. The car that you drove daily, but wasn’t your main car… Maybe you drive your other car twice daily
I said it was relatively comfortable with a refined engine - I did not call it refined (I'm not calling the whole package refined - but the engine is one from the Renault/Nissan alliance designed for the "luxury" segment https://www.press.renault.co.uk/releases/572 so is nice and a far cry from the clattery tractor like 4 pots in some workhorse pickups).
I mentioned that I have a main car in context of:
But for different purposes I also drove the pickup daily so have experience of it as a daily driver as well as a car to compare.
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Erm, the post I quoted? The one you where for some unknown reason you felt the need to tell me about your car. The car that you drove daily, but wasn’t your main car… Maybe you drive your other car twice daily
You may have missed the point of motoring forum.
I for one like reading other people opinions of their cars how they use then and the pros and cons.
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Yeah and when they say a hill billy truck rides well you have authority to question their credibility.
The other side of motoring forum engagament. Its like the great awakening this year. first jpaul now Rroff people seem to be finally calling them out on stuff that ive seen for years.
PS i hd to show the ignored content to see the fun here
Yeah and when they say a hill billy truck rides well you have authority to question their credibility.
The other side of motoring forum engagament. Its like the great awakening this year. first jpaul now Rroff people seem to be finally calling them out on stuff that ive seen for years.
PS i hd to show the ignored content to see the fun here
Most modern pickups are a long way from a hill billy truck - so you aren't off to a good start for an informed post. You can also see I've added caveats in there as to the ride quality due to the leaf springs on the back, so again not a very accurate representation of what I've actually said vs what you've imagined I've said - I've literally said "and make up a lot for the less refined ride"...
Then context matters - jigger's claim was "absolutely terrible" - I'm not claiming pickups are some pinnacle of refinement and are easily outclassed by any decent car but relative to jigger's absolutely terrible the modern lifestyle grade ones are quite acceptable and in reality comfortable enough, and specced well enough - some are very well specced, they aren't hideously outclassed by an average car like a Mondeo as jigger was claiming. Practicality as a car isn't quite there but it is a long way from absolutely terrible.
On the flip side there are pickups, intended more as workhorses, which are not great places to be generally and I wouldn't want to be daily driving as my main car.
So what exactly are you calling out?
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Again....it's a motoring forum incessantly taking about motors seems entirely appropriate.
There's always a 4x4 Panda.
Or...https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volkswagen/beetle/93970/volkswagen-beetle-dune-2016-review
Baja Bugs are one of the ones which always make me go... hmm I dunno, there is something both kind of cool and very wrong about them.
EDIT: Oh and there is an absolutely cursed one where someone mashed a 2CV and a Beetle together into a off-roader - unfortunately I can't find it from a quick search - it is absolute an abomination which should never have been allowed to happen.
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Ground clearance was the main criterion - we had a Chevvy Spin before and speed bumps - of which there are many, often unmarked - were problematic when fully laden.