I thought of you all the other day when somebody in a newer pickup truck got behind me driving my Mazda 3. I didn’t take a photo in my rear view mirror because safe driving and all that, but I felt like I was living in some kind of AI generated c/fuckcars meme.
In my mirror the front of the truck looked like a WALL the height of a grown adult with a little thin stripe of windshield above it. AND there was a big hood scoop on top of that. The little stripe of windshield was like 10’/3m behind the wall at the front of the truck too, just to make the visibility as dangerous as possible.
I’ve got a car with 8 inches of ground clearance, that can carry 8ft dimensional lumber inside the vehicle, tow a thousand pounds of material in my relatively lightweight trailer, make it through snowstorms to ski hills and muddy fields and some ATV tracks, tow other vehicles up steep slippery inclines, haul full size BBQs and similar fully assembled inside the vehicle, and yet I pull up alongside a newer generation of the same model and their window bottom is at my eye level. or a pickup is on my ass and I can’t see anything but the lower half of the grill, and its headlights are shining directly into my car and leaving a crisp white line on the headliner from through my rear window.
also obligatory fuck your Mazda too, if you have a newer one with LED headlights. if not, disregard. I miss my '08 Mazda3, even if it did suck in the snow. mostly my fault for using regular size and width winter tires. but seriously, fuck Mazda’s LED headlights. I’ve seen it twice already this year that a pedestrian was nearly run over in a crosswalk because a driver couldn’t see them due to a Mazda3 on the other side of the four way stop.
Fortunately my Mazda 3 is over a decade old and the headlights are actually too dim if anything. I need to polish the housings too. It sucks to hear that they are jumping on the annoying blinding headlight bandwagon along with some other brands though. They seem to do a lot of little things right in their designs.
I’ve posted a couple times about how I load 8’ dimensional lumber into my Mazda3 as well, lol. Usually the people around me are driving their giant trucks and not loading jack shit into them.
yeah you can fit 8ft lumber into a Yaris two door hatchback. it’s easier than sticking out the back of a truck bed lmao
I do remember having to polish the headlights on my mazda3, as well as pretty much every car that gets to be over 10-15 years old. the Mazda headlight shape was easy, Subaru’s is annoying to sand and polish because of all the curves.
I always enjoy turning heads at home depot when loading up.
it is disappointing about Mazda. they were among the first to go back to physical controls and whatnot. but unfortunately the headlights are a dealbreaker, it’s just too goddamn obnoxious and dangerous
I have definitely developed an appreciation for Mazda over the years. I keep toying with the idea of an MX-5 for my next car. (I live in suburban USA where driving is required, and I have a short twisty drive to work when I go into the office)
I thought of you all the other day when somebody in a newer pickup truck got behind me driving my Mazda 3. I didn’t take a photo in my rear view mirror because safe driving and all that, but I felt like I was living in some kind of AI generated c/fuckcars meme.
In my mirror the front of the truck looked like a WALL the height of a grown adult with a little thin stripe of windshield above it. AND there was a big hood scoop on top of that. The little stripe of windshield was like 10’/3m behind the wall at the front of the truck too, just to make the visibility as dangerous as possible.
yep it’s absolutely ridiculous
I’ve got a car with 8 inches of ground clearance, that can carry 8ft dimensional lumber inside the vehicle, tow a thousand pounds of material in my relatively lightweight trailer, make it through snowstorms to ski hills and muddy fields and some ATV tracks, tow other vehicles up steep slippery inclines, haul full size BBQs and similar fully assembled inside the vehicle, and yet I pull up alongside a newer generation of the same model and their window bottom is at my eye level. or a pickup is on my ass and I can’t see anything but the lower half of the grill, and its headlights are shining directly into my car and leaving a crisp white line on the headliner from through my rear window.
also obligatory fuck your Mazda too, if you have a newer one with LED headlights. if not, disregard. I miss my '08 Mazda3, even if it did suck in the snow. mostly my fault for using regular size and width winter tires. but seriously, fuck Mazda’s LED headlights. I’ve seen it twice already this year that a pedestrian was nearly run over in a crosswalk because a driver couldn’t see them due to a Mazda3 on the other side of the four way stop.
Fortunately my Mazda 3 is over a decade old and the headlights are actually too dim if anything. I need to polish the housings too. It sucks to hear that they are jumping on the annoying blinding headlight bandwagon along with some other brands though. They seem to do a lot of little things right in their designs.
I’ve posted a couple times about how I load 8’ dimensional lumber into my Mazda3 as well, lol. Usually the people around me are driving their giant trucks and not loading jack shit into them.
yeah you can fit 8ft lumber into a Yaris two door hatchback. it’s easier than sticking out the back of a truck bed lmao
I do remember having to polish the headlights on my mazda3, as well as pretty much every car that gets to be over 10-15 years old. the Mazda headlight shape was easy, Subaru’s is annoying to sand and polish because of all the curves.
I always enjoy turning heads at home depot when loading up.
it is disappointing about Mazda. they were among the first to go back to physical controls and whatnot. but unfortunately the headlights are a dealbreaker, it’s just too goddamn obnoxious and dangerous
ayy
I have definitely developed an appreciation for Mazda over the years. I keep toying with the idea of an MX-5 for my next car. (I live in suburban USA where driving is required, and I have a short twisty drive to work when I go into the office)