I’m pretty tall. I move a lot of family members around on rare occasions. I go for week-long trips out of town in my car. I barely drive it in town (usually evenings and weekends and not even every evening or weekend). My car isn’t quite that behemoth but it is large enough for what I need. I have helped with over 4 home moves in that car and even used it to transport a fridge to a civic waste site.
It does the job fine. I’ve never felt the need to get a pickup truck. Some people probably have genuine use cases. The majority probably don’t. Those things are wild.
Amazing. Yeah I am not Shaq tall, that guy has a almost a foot on me lol, but tall enough to want something that allows people behind me to be comfortable, and I like a fairly relaxed driving position. I fit into my sister’s Smart car well enough too, but not much else does. I do lug about a lot of cargo when I use the car for its main purpose: practicality!
If I’m not taking my family half way up the country for weddings, funerals and such I’ve also been known to use the car to pick up colleagues en route for very rare meetings out of town, to save fuel overall. My usual commute is by public transport.
The mondeo is a great family car. I have a friend where his whole family, brother, mother, dag, uncle etc. each own a mondeo and sware by it because it just the right size for a family.
Yeah it’s one I’m struggling to replace, but because I use it so little I’m not as fussed just yet. Will keep it until it doesn’t pass MOT anymore, or something else makes more sense.
I’m pretty tall. I move a lot of family members around on rare occasions. I go for week-long trips out of town in my car. I barely drive it in town (usually evenings and weekends and not even every evening or weekend). My car isn’t quite that behemoth but it is large enough for what I need. I have helped with over 4 home moves in that car and even used it to transport a fridge to a civic waste site.
It does the job fine. I’ve never felt the need to get a pickup truck. Some people probably have genuine use cases. The majority probably don’t. Those things are wild.
Being tall isn’t a good excuse for needing a large car anyway
Amazing. Yeah I am not Shaq tall, that guy has a almost a foot on me lol, but tall enough to want something that allows people behind me to be comfortable, and I like a fairly relaxed driving position. I fit into my sister’s Smart car well enough too, but not much else does. I do lug about a lot of cargo when I use the car for its main purpose: practicality!
If I’m not taking my family half way up the country for weddings, funerals and such I’ve also been known to use the car to pick up colleagues en route for very rare meetings out of town, to save fuel overall. My usual commute is by public transport.
The mondeo is a great family car. I have a friend where his whole family, brother, mother, dag, uncle etc. each own a mondeo and sware by it because it just the right size for a family.
Yeah it’s one I’m struggling to replace, but because I use it so little I’m not as fussed just yet. Will keep it until it doesn’t pass MOT anymore, or something else makes more sense.
Yeah, I moved house with a Mk2 Mondeo and it was a breeze. Towed well, and could take 70kg over the hitch at the same time.
Really practical :-)