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I have come to the conclusion that I need a different winter car. Now that I'm having to drive through tiny neighborhood streets which don't get plowed, the NB is finally demonstrating that it's no longer up to the challenge after any sort of decent snowstorm.
So I'm gonna buy a winter car.
Criteria here are:
1: AWD / 4WD.
2: Ground clearance.
3: Small, particularly in length.
4: An absence of largeness.
5: The property of not being long.
I've been able to come up with three cars which satisfy these criteria:
1: Suzuki SX4
2: Jeep Wrangler
3: Nissan Juke
The Suzuki worries me based on relative rarity, and thus, parts and service availability.
The Jeep... is a Jeep.
So that leaves one of the ugliest things to come out of Japan since Yoko Ono.
AWD Jukes seem to be plentiful, and I'm finding lots of one-owner examples with relatively high mileage for sale, which suggests decent reliability.
In this case, I'd be paying the extra money for a late-model (2016 / 17), lower-mileage unit, on the basis that it'll hopefully be the last winter car I'll need to purchase.
The RAV4 is longer than LongCat, and LongCat is loooooong.
For comparison:
It's a matter of the garage. By keeping things short, it doesn't screw up my nice arrangement and workflow vis-a-via storage, the parking of the lawnmower and snowblower, etc.
02-03-2022, 12:24 PM
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