What do you drive?

[m0xiemama]

I was just curious what everyone drives when picking up a new machine. What are you able to fit in it? Help me pick my next car

I drive a Jeep Compass. The smallest one. I can fit an upright perfectly, perhaps a small console if I didn't always have the baby in tow. The Mr has a small pickup but the single cab so if I have to use that we have to each drive.

Thanks everyone for the input! Sounds to me like I won't be as stuck as I think. I'm little and hated the thought I'd need an F250 or a Yukon to get the job done.

[kirtley2012]

I bring most things back home in a backpack whilst riding my bike!, my back was in pain carrying back a columbia 112(possibly114)A, bigger things though, I. Brought a hmv radiogram in a vw passat and my dad now has a van!

[John Svensson]

I have the choice of a full scale pick-up bed...if the weather is nice, or a Kia Sportage back cargo area....or a 4 door Saturn commute car. Seems like it is always the last one that I'm using though.

[phonogfp]

2006 and 2010 Subaru Foresters. The all-wheel drive will get you through just about anything encountered in western New York state, and they handle extremely well year-round. (Had a deer jump in front of me a year ago while going highway speed. Despite rather violent maneuvering, the vehicle handled beautifully, and we avoided Bambi. I'd have rolled my old van!) Plenty of room and very comfortable. 30 mpg highway.

George P.

[FloridaClay]

Believe it or not, I brought an Edison Diamond Disc C150 home in the back seat of my Hundai Sonata. For really big stuff I just borrow or rent a van.

Clay

[HisMastersVoice]

I usually take a Chevy Silverado 2500 from work to pick up machines. I think I could just about fit anything in the trunk of our '64 Cadillac DeVille, however

[Henry]

In 1980 I bought my VV-XI in upstate NY (not Yonkers, city people! DeKalb Junction, NY. You can look it up.) I drove it home to Allentown in the front passenger space (seat removed for the purpose) of my '64 Beetle. Getting it in and out of the car was quite a feat, considering the weight. I still have the VV-XI, but the VW is history (and good riddance!).

[Orthophonic]

I use a variety of vehicles. I transported a Credenza with a set of handtrucks in an '84 Escort wagon. I generally use my '91 S-10 or my '77 Scout.

[Retrograde]

mini-van. With the 2nd and 3rd row seats taken out, it has a cavernous area for machines. I lost a Credenza in there one time for a week.

[gregbogantz]

I have a 1993 Jeep Cherokee that has hauled all the pieces in my collection that haven't been delivered by UPS or FedEx. This original Cherokee design (not the bloated Grand version) was the most efficient and practical utilitarian vehicle ever made by Jeep. And I don't know of another brand that shares its complement of features. They quit making this model in 2002, probably because they couldn't charge enuf money for the old, practical, well-hashed-out design. It was the dumbest thing Mopar has done because they never made a replacement for it. The Grand and the Commander are bloatmobiles, and the other Jeeps are too small. The back seat folds down for increased cargo area, so I can get some pretty big cabinets in the Cherokee (Victor Credenza, E.H. Scott AW-23 in the Waverly Grande cabinet, Capehart 111N2, Capehart 406H, E.H. Scott 800-B in the Chippendale cabinet, Philco 38-690, Edison C-2, and the Philco 42-1016 which is massive - it was a tight squeeze but made it), yet it has a very tight turning radius which is real useful in negotiating the mountain roads and driveways around where I live. Not to mention the utility of the high ground clearance and the 4-wheel drive. Also cheap to buy since Mopar got their body panel tooling costs out of it in the late 1980s when it first came out. Totally practical transporter, and it even gets decent mileage on the highway with the port-injected 4 liter straight-6 (which they also don't make anymore, alas) and the 5-speed manual transmixer with overdrive. Great for pulling a trailer, too, which I've done on occasion. If I could, I'd buy a brand new Cherokee. But, alas, Mopar has abandoned the utilitarian market. Much to the chagrin of the U.S. Forest Service who used to drive a lot of them down here in the mountains. So I'll be keeping this already 20 year old vehicle until the wheels fall off. I just had the brakes rebuilt after 190,000 miles, so it should be good for a few more.