• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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    13 hours ago

    I feel like it’s more of a crossover but yeah that’s basically the smallest car they sell nowadays, at least here in the USA.

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      The smallest car you can get in Victoria is a Kia Picanto or a Suzuki Ignis. We’re talking under 900kg. They’re usually driven by the very young or very old.

      I get around Melbourne in an old Ignis. The government frames us like we’re the unsafe ones. The road blimps are getting out of hand.

      Fun story: I annoyed a guy in a Silverado last month by (gasp) getting in front of it so I could see. He pulls up next to me and starts yelling at my roof. I couldn’t even see the dickhead’s face.

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        I drive a Swift and a motorbike in Melbourne. I’m convinced 2 out of three drivers in Melbourne have zero ability to recognise they are part of an ecosystem and that the road doesn’t uniquely belong to them.

        And tell me about being blamed for our own safety. Can’t even go for a decent ride any more because I’ve seen potholes that can swallow a man. And now they have.

        • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          13 hours ago

          I had to double-check, but the difference seems to be that traditionally SUV has a frame separate from the body construction, and crossover has the body form frame

          But also, that definition is not always followed and people just call the stupidest size cars SUVs, and the less-stupid-but-still-stupid-size crossover

          But for example, by that definition this lada niva is a crossover, not an SUV

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            13 hours ago

            Yeah I also looked it up and it doesn’t really seem like there’s a consensus on whether they count as SUVs. So I guess we’re both kinda right.

            Either way fuck cars that are bigger than they need to be. That’s the ultimate point.