The interior of a Ford Escape feels like a Soviet prison compared to that of a CX5. IMO with only a bit of sarcasm.
Looking at the local Honda dealer, to get into the low $30,000s in a Pilot, you gotta look at ones with >60,000 miles.
Pilots are great family cars.....but given these...
Most bang for the new car buck is the 2025 CX-5.... (good luck getting discounts on a 2026 RAV4)
unless she has some big boys or the kids are in activities with lots of stuff.....then the CX5 is likely too small and for the same money, I'd get a used Highlander or Pilot(IMO).
And if you get a...
will only be a half-solution, but you need something on the exterior to block the rays (interior shades don't do anything as the rays just bounce around inside the cabin)...like this. https://www.temu.com/search_result.html?search_key=snow%20shade
Automakers might be locked into multi-year contracts for parts. Good chance that the cheapest option is to do nothing, unless it was planned pre-Election Night 2024.
tough problem is that under a certain price (say $6,000), sellers will list on Facebook marketplace only (even Craigslist's demo has "aged out").....all the major national sites are too expensive for cheap cars.
You might just have to grind through all the local Facebook marketplace...
Because, like most companies, people---especially management--- who work at a company (Cars dot com, carbuzz, etc) "don't eat their own dog food" and aren't really "the car gals/guys" that their Linkedin bio says.
A lot of it is that electricity is more expensive over there so they have different expectations.
Their 79 - 81F comfort level is our 75. And I suspect, some OEMs don't bother spec-ing a USA-specific system unless their cost-benefit analysis gives it a green light. (even though a summer in...
Current gen. Mazda CX-5, not enough BTU (joules). only tolerable (to me) in my summer in my 4-season climate.
If I lived in the southwest, Texas, southeast, I'd sit in the dealer's lot and test the A/C in a hot car before considering a test drive.
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This is the oil that was used after the first engine oil change (Bio One 0w20) + Bullsone Signature additive at 3,775 km and the Super Normal oil change at 4,949 km, and driving for 4,823 km and 152 hours...
>>>>We need something that we can get in and out of easily for two people with many back and neck issues.
Go to a Carmax lot (if you have one near) and sit in all the used versions of the Toyotas/Subarus that you are interested in. Chat can only help so much. at the Carmax lot, you'll have...