i have a kayak and that's what I need to transport occasionally some weekends. I only carry my bike once a year to a store for maintenance. But it's important to me to not have to give up my kayak over the car I drive when I never had to before. I don't want to put something behind my car so that I wind up crashing into something when I backup. I don't keep racks on top of the car when I am not on a kayak trip although I might if it was necessary. The reason I got the car I have now is that a Prius wagon supposedly didn't have a good way to take a Thule rack off easily - the car I have has an easy to move out of the way rack. Now years later I want to replace the car I have but there is no Prius wagon, and the Prius never had AWD anyway and is too low to the ground.
I would like a car a little off the ground for times that water is high. I don't want to be one of those statistics where someone's tesla was totaled from "flood," as I saw in a video by a guy who tries to pick up parts so he can service teslas himself. He found a lot of teslas that were junked from water destruction. When I drive through a few inches of water I don't want to risk my car. Where I live there is a lot of storming and tropical weather.
I would like a car a little off the ground for times that water is high. I don't want to be one of those statistics where someone's tesla was totaled from "flood," as I saw in a video by a guy who tries to pick up parts so he can service teslas himself. He found a lot of teslas that were junked from water destruction. When I drive through a few inches of water I don't want to risk my car. Where I live there is a lot of storming and tropical weather.