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i kind of get the best of both worlds now. I can drive my TourX and sit Low. And then I can also drive the Pacfica and its so easy to slide in and out and the seat is wayyyyyyy more comfy. Ingress and Egress is perfect height. Actually, with the 20's on the Pacifica, it has pretty good steering feel for a utility type vehicle. Actually I've been so detached from the real market and so many offerings are blending together.....what actually are the decent CUV's that drive well, have power, (and aren't lux category pricing). I mean, the list is gotta be pretty small.

high center of gravity...even if hunkered down. No high center of gravity. guess which one has a better handling, emergency or otherwise and guess which one I prefer to daily.

I dunno why I wanna cling to sedans and lower to the ground vehicles that I do. The ease of getting in and out of in a taller vehicle is definitely not lost on me. I get it. Fully comprehend and acknowledge. Lower to the ground vehicles do cling to the road better. Its a fact!!! But its not as if I drive Michael Schumacher speeds on Montreal's curvy roads. Traffic, snow, pot holes, pedestrians, cops all prevent me from driving like Michael Schumacher... Roll overs are a thing to my psyche. Sure... Its a fact, that many mundane accidents in SUVs do result in a roll over as compared to a sedan. But that is not a reason why I am soooooo not into SUVs. I am liking fullsized pick-up trucks more and more. And ironically, I prefer those as higher to the ground as possible... I guess Ill eventually get over it...

Ironically Buick builds an equal, kind of, to the Subaru Outback, the TourX, but lower to the ground and not as proficient in offroading... based on the Regal sedan and calls it a crossover.

Nah...not a station wagon. The Eagle aint a station wagon either. The Eagle would be the very first crossover SUV. And if the Eagle is/was considered a compact or even a mid-sizer, it would be the first CUV as in COMPACT utility vehicle... This is a wagon, but could it also be an SUV, too? This is why the term crossover was coined. Its two fold. 1. For the weenie boys that dont want to admit they like wagons. To feel like they bought into some sort of marketing lifestyle they want to adhere to. These "crossover" 'tweeners are truly SUVs though. Most of them are on the smaller side so I personally would call them CUVs to denigrate them further. Unless we are talking about REAL sport utility vehicles. You know, the rugged offroaders and the utilitarian stuff that now also make up the luxury world. Navigators and even Cayennes etc. 2. Crossover was also coined for the exact opposite of what I just stated. For the folk that despise the excess culture of the SUV world. Be it the bling bling world of a Hummer, Escalade or the unsophisticated, too outdoorsy image of a Jeep and a lifted 4Runner. The boring Toyota crowd (sans the FJ Cruiser and 4unner) fits in this area quite nicely. I had a soccer (baseball) mom tell me she was proud of her purrchase of a Jeep Sahara (4 door) two years ago. I told her "woooo, the ORIGINAL SUV!!!" She snapped back at me and told me NO! Its NOT an SUV!!! I guess she equated SUV with soccer mom... So I dunno where the phoque HER type fits in, but yeah. To me, a wagon is: NOT lifted and NOT HIGHER than an EXISTING sedan that its based on. The Lyriq is a crossover. It is not based on any sedan. It may not be a CUV as its not a compact vehicle, its definitely not a station wagon... Its a damned crossover. The AMG Eagle would be confusing to classify it, yes. The Eagle is based on the Spirit. Its a hatchback...not a sedan. But its based on an existing car... But it is lifted with 4 wheel drive. It truly is the first crossover. It crossed over a segment to create a new one. yeah...they call the Outback as a wagon. Its lifted though, but at least its based on a sedan. Its a wagon... barely. Kinda like the Eagle. True!!! Ill repeat though, the Lyriq has NO sedan equivalent. Its a crossover... As for me buying one, one day. Any CUV/SUV. Possibly... when Im like 80 years old and I can barely get into my cars...because of ease of ingress and egress... Im 49 and I dont have any issues just yet. Not making fun of anybody...but yeah... AND...I dont really crave AWD. I have it on my Acura ONLY because I wanted 300 plus naturally aspirated V6 horses and at that time, the Acura TL SH-AWD was the one that had what it took to get my money in 2012. A few years later if I waited to buy a car, and it would have been an Impala in my driveway instead. 300 horse naturally aspirated V6 powering the front wheels. Ideally, I would have lived in an area where there aint no snow so RWD would have been my thing. Its not just the ride height I dont like on CUVs/SUVs, its the unnecessary weight that Id be lugging around with AWD. That goes for the TL SH-AWD as well. If Id buy a RWD sedan that offers AWD like a Pentastar V6 Chrysler 300 or Dodge Charger or the myriad of BMWs and Mercedes Benzes and buy those with AWD, then Id lose the ONLY benefit that RWD has over FWD. And that would be the fun driving characteristics of a tossable rear end... And for what? For me to drive in snow? FWD takes care of that, and the extra heft could kiss my ass. But I realized that a FWD/AWD car is just as numbing an experience as a regular FWD car, or a RWD with AWD... So for me, unless I actually go offroading, 4 wheel drive could kiss my ass...

Q: What did the little boy tell his mom when he stuck his finger in the wall outlet? A: Mom, it Hertz!

I think that customized ride is a $75,000 plus after all you have a LT4 Wet Sump Connect & Cruise Powertrain System W/ 4L75E $25,411.03 So right there is a chunk and you still have installation, but that ride also has a ton of other customized work so I think easy $75,000 to $100,000 total for what they did and no I do not think it would be recovered selling it at auction. I get that they say it is an SUV, but it has a clear stationwagon look like how Eagle did their cars more than a traditional SUV. I could see you driving it.

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My reason for wanting to sit higher has nothing to do with safety or visibility, it's the ingress and egress of getting in and out of something where the seat height is almost identical to "my seat height" (lol).

In reality. Want I DO want to say. Bruh! You buy what the phoque YOU want to buy! Let no fool tell you otherwise!!!

And so...the wussification of our society continues... (Just joking) (Just let me be on my dumb ass rant for levity purposes) So... You want to sit higher so you could see better? May I suggest this instead? Because you feel safer being in a taller vehicle? Wah Wah Wah Here, let me cuddle you... We could play peek a boo if it wont be toooo scary for you... Now, unless you are talking about a REAL man's SUV, then Im all for it. But if you are thinking about one of those soccer mom deals... I gonna petition to revoke your man card...