My $2500 Tahoe convinced me I like trucks more than sports cars.
to the Southern California canyons is a consistent treat. That, however, is the crux of it. A sports car feels like an indulgence to me, a silly, delicate thing to own alongside your real workhorse. The real hero is the tool that does the actual work.Because cars are a lot of things; They're aspirational items, pleasure crafts, status symbols, sanctuary pods, engineering experiments, and more.
It roars to life every time, its V-8 ready to burble away the day or roar up a mountainside with four passengers and hundreds of pounds of cargo. It barrels through the California desert, enabling great camping adventures and from-a-movie memories. It demolishes miles at 80 mph, even if it demolishes gas in the process, and is so quiet and comfortable that you could cover a thousand in a day. Its fun is not in the direct experience it provides, but in the indirect way it enables experiences.
The Tahoe's mission statement now is as simple as in 2001. The Tahoe takes all of the people and gear I could bring wherever I want to go. Its low-range gearbox and limited-slip differential mean it'll press on when the going gets too tough for a crossover, its construction means you don't have to sweat the beating, and its ubiquity means wrenching solutions are well-documented and incredibly cheap.
I'd stay in a hotel, or, worse, not at all. I'd miss out on the endless stars in the pitch-black sky, the better trails at the end of the dirt roads, and the memories of a four-person trip into the wilderness. In the Tahoe, I haul a roof tent, and I don't bring a ladder because I can walk right up the sun-scorched hood. It's a beat up old tool, and it doesn't need to be babied.
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