I see a lot of people buying SUVs or crossovers over sedans and hatchbacks due to off road capabilities

I see a lot of people buying SUVs or crossovers over sedans and hatchbacks due to off road capabilities
However the only offroad they tackle might probably be the roads on rally racing. If this is the case why do they prefer crossovers and suvs when rally racing is done on hatchbacks and sedans?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It's done on those cars because they're faster, lighter, and give more responsive control to a trained driver. To your average karen driving, going off road on a sedan just means a much worse ride quality. Not to mention these rally cars are purpose built and need a lot of maintenance, going off road with low ground clearance might frick some things up.
    Not sure if I just replied to bait.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not bait. You said worse ride quality. Isnt a car thathas lower ground clearance provide better comfort to the rider over higher ground clearance? I mean I'm comparing what if a daily sedan has AWD or 4WD can it be a better alternative over an SUV or crossover?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        By daily sedan I mean an econo budget sedan or hatchback then have AWD or 4WD

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Most people aren’t going to daily an econo budget sedan/hatch. The daily is the most important car one owns as it is driven the most.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >It's done on those cars because they're faster, lighter, and give more responsive control to a trained driver.
      >trained driver.
      Thread over

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Crossovers have zero capability off-road - none.

    As someone with a V8 sports car and a V8 SUV there are 10x more uses for knobby tires, high ground clearance and good approach and departure in a given week.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      So is a 90s evolution AWD better at offroading than a modern crossover ?

      What about a modern civic and have it AWD?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Neither of them are off-roading, both have generally the same ground clearance and horrid approach/departure angles.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        iirc Evos have full time AWD and LSDs at least in the rear (some models have front too) so it would be better.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I see a lot of people buying SUVs or crossovers over sedans and hatchbacks due to off road capabilities
    No one's buying them for offroad capabilities

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don’t know anyone that has purchased a suv or crossover for off road. They buy them for cargo space, wet/ice traction, and a higher seating position.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      If thats the case why are they doming out with 4wd and awd crossovers and suvs.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        There’s been like 1 new SUV introduced in the last 10 years, it’s a nearly dead segment.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yes but crossovers are booming segment. Sedans are pretty much dead already.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Ticking the AWD option in a crossover is like ticking the type of rims you want on the option sheet for women. It’s nothing more than a badge. It doesn’t have the pretense of off-road capability, it doesn’t add anything that the appropriate tires would add alone to its capability in a given weather situation.
            Same goes for AWD cars (ignoring 600HP+ where 325 rears can’t put everything to the ground)

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Look at the ruts on the right side of the picture, there’s not a single stock crossover on the market that isn’t going to drag. A dedicated custom rally car might handle it depending on the amount of lift.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            To

            Can rally cars handle them?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Mostly agree. Subaru crossovers (Crosstrek and outback) are actually good at offroading due to the ground clearance and real AWD.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    People like sitting higher but won't take the truck pill.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    SUVs aren't 1 bit more practical offroad than any other AWD shitbox on street tires. frick, many of them aren't even AWD. it's just complete morons that think a 2 inch lift means they can climb over rocks now. And even if they could it wouldn't be anything but a larp because none of them ever leave the road.

    tl;dr SUV homosexuals are braindead

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      AWD cars can’t handle even the most basic path to my summer beach

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Can rally cars handle them?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This car will unironically beat those crossovers in that terrain. Only reason to get a crossover is more space.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    actual offroading(tm) is severely gay and involves going to dedicated offroad areas that are basically like going to a track and not the go anywhere larp people claim that doesnt actually exist
    people buy suvs and crossovers so they can plow through a foot of snow like it doesnt exist on all season tires and have a comfy ride on terrible roads
    these are actual daily use cases that matter to real people vs racing on a dirt road or bouncing around on rocks at 2mph

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not all of us live in the city, sissiboi. I have to go across paths that you would never make it down on a weekly basis. Never once been to a ‘dedicated area’, bet you can’t say the same about going to a track.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah I track my S2k

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I track my prius

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      So ride height is the only reason to buy a crossover over a sedan?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's way the frick easier loading shit into a big hatch than it is trying to fit shit into a trunk.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >and not the go anywhere larp people claim that doesnt actually exist
      thats a government problem not a car problem

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >so they can plow through a foot of snow

      This is. What crossovergays actually believe. Drove a WRX through 18 inches of snow and had no problems. With an suv or crossovers you just have worse braking and less control.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Those people don't like to have fun and if they drove as fast as you or I do, their high center of gravity car would tip over in a curve

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Off-road you say?

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    because rally racing is bred out of a very specific subset of race culture that originated in early "rally" events of departing and navigating to a preset end point via public roads that are sometimes not paved
    i love rally but face it no rally car can go truly "off road" they require a specific race surface just as much a dedicated track car

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've taken my Civic on a few fire roads and trails. Wouldn't recommend it.

    I will get a 4Runner one day.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >FWD
      Get a sedan with AWD

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Frick off, I know how to drive. My Civic see's more snow that most Subarus ever will

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Front drive never once the issue. Issue is ground clearance and suspension

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >implying normalgays know what rallying is
    the thought process stops at "big + high clearance = offroad"

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Thread is stupid as frick, considering cars, rally cars included, get stuck on fricking grass and uneven dirt roads.

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