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A small car means several trips to do normal things instead of just one. How is that beneficial exactly?

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What “normal things” are you doing that need a huge car?

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He needs to know he can move an entire house worth of belongings once a decade without having to rent a U-Haul like a pussy.

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Daily too. They’re either a contractor or lying

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Either your definition of small car is extra tiny or your definition of normal things is exaggerated.

Jobs need trucks. Daily driving doesn’t.

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I remember a guy called into Car Talk asking about what he should buy. After describing his needs they recommended a smaller or midsize car. The guy said “But what about when I need to haul stuff?” They asked him how often he actually did that and he said about 2-3 times a year. They said to save himself thousands of dollars and get the smaller vehicle and rent a truck for a fraction of the cost for the few times he needed to haul stuff.

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Dude, I drive a Miata, and a 1st gen rx7. I can think of maybe 2 times I’ve needed to drive my husbands car (which is a veloster, so not terribly large either) in the 8 or so years of Miata ownership. At least one of those times was because I didn’t want to drive the RX7 from San Diego to Los Angeles with no air conditioning, no power steering, and a relatively heavy clutch, in the middle of summer, in rush hour traffic. Not because what I was picking up wouldn’t fit in the rx7.

What exactly do you need to do multiple trips for?

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No way it can fit groceries lol.

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This is one of the most ridiculous arguments I’ve heard about small cars lol

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