do you really need a 7-9 passanger SUV or minivan to drive your single butt to work.. Sincy you have 2 kids, do you really need a 7 passenger vehicle?
B-b-but without the latest huge vehicle, how will I maintain my status relative to my neighbors and coworkers who DO have the latest new huge vehicle? How will my id (footnote 1) survive the deprivation?
Trailers? YES! I still have the trailer I bought in 1987. For $600.
Rated for 2200 lbs.. Have had 3600 lbs in it when the gravel yard messed up and overloaded it. Still got it home behind my toyota alltrac station wagon, although my stopping distance was noticably longer.
I used to tow with a toyota starlet before that (about the size of the CRX) and brought home a trailer load full of granite cobblestones.
The starlet did break a tooth off a diffirential spider gear a while after
that, though.
Cost for the trailer has been a new coat of paint, new tires when the old ones dry cracked all over the sidewalls, new timken bearings, seals, and those bearing buddy greaser things.
Footnote 1:
id :
the part of the psyche, residing in the unconscious, that is the source of instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in accordance with the pleasure principle and are modified by the ego and the superego before they are given overt expression.