I’ll admit it, the advertising worked.
There’s more pictures of it on his facebook page.
Edit: I wonder if it belongs to his wife, the plate is DRMGIRL
I’ve only ever seen him driving it. I’ve never seen him with a passenger.
I spotted a Lucid Gravity, my first one in the wild. I’ve only seen the Lucid Air up until now.
You reminded me. I saw one the other day. My first Lucid Gravity seen in the wild.
At first glance I thought it was a minivan.
Yeah it does exude minivan, right?
IMO we’ve reached the point where there’s functionally very little difference between a typical crossover and a minivan.
A powered Little Tykes car - a Smart car painted red & yellow (& Midas) in a Midas parking lot
Minivans have A LOT more cargo space, and they’re easier to get into and out of.
I saw a 1980 Le Car yesterday-51 horsepower, noisy as hell, and as stable as a drunken three-legged giraffe.
My wife had a Le Car back in the ‘80s. Strangely, I don’t remember her Camaro.
Nobody remembers the bus trip after they have seen a train wreck up close.
I’ve argued before on this board that for a lot of people, a minivan is the most versatile and practical vehicle they could own. An actual minivan: two rows of seats in the back that can be removed or folded down, a big sliding door on the side (or both sides), and a big rear hatch. They give you best of all worlds: they can haul a lot of people, can be reconfigured to haul a lot of cargo, and are pretty comfortable to ride in and drive.
Most new “crossovers” are basically the genetic descendants of station wagons and hatchbacks.
Anyway. Speaking of minivans, the most interesting car I saw today was… uh… this thing. The front was a 90’s Ford Aerostar:
While the rear was a pickup.
No idea what pickup had an assectomy to make this monstrosity interesting vehicle, but here we are. My life is richer for having witnessed this thing.
And, truth be told, it doesn’t hold a candle to this, which was cruising over Eugene yesterday:
Agreed. If the two dudes in a Ford Explorer had totalled our Odyssey at the end of the pandemic, we would have replaced it with the Sienna hybrid instead of the Highlander hybrid.
And crossovers typically have higher ground clearance than minivans.
Argeed - but when you’re hauling shit to college, which is more important?
No question. Without a doubt the minivan rules there.
Which is oh so important for those gravel parking lots at the soccer field, which is 99% of their ‘offroading’ 
It’s not just about offroading. Cars with lower ground clearance are also a lot more likely to get stuck in the snow, more likely to bash the front bumper into a steep driveway approach, or bottom out on a big pothole.
In my case, when I get home from work after it’s been snowing, there’s often a large ridge of snow from the city plows in front of my driveway. With cars like my Honda Civics, that means parking on the street, walking though all the snow to get to my house so I can put on boots, gloves, hat etc, drag the snow blower out, clear the driveway and then, finally, get the car into the garage.
With cars that I’ve had that are higher, I can drive right over it without risking my bumper or airbags or just getting stuck trying to ram through it.
Besides, what difference does it make if a soccer mom wants a minivan or an SUV? Even if they have no actual use for the additional ground clearance, that comes with say, a Jeep Grand Cherokee or Tahoe over a Chrysler Town and Country, who cares?
I live in the Northeast; unless you’ve been away, which means what the plows pushed has had an opportunity to freeze I’ve never had an issue with it because if it’s that high that a Civic can’t get thru it, you probably shouldn’t have been driving in a 2WD car; especially if you didn’t have chains on it. Yeah, the plow-compacted ‘boulders’ can be heavy to lift on a shovel but I’ve never seen one that is a match for a car on the day they were pushed there.
What I was saying is the majority of ‘offroading’ those soccer moms do is an unpaved parking lot; IOW, never