I avoid driving mine to places I know will be a bitch to park like Boston and NYC. Busy suburbs and smaller cities like Providence it does fine. Not the Grenadier’s natural habitat but it’s generally fine.
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If your city has narrow streets and tight turns then this is a non starter as your daily driver. If you have wide avenues and multi lane roads then perfectly fine. Only issue then is the shopping mall car parks which all tend to be about 2inches too low at entry - hence a no go. Reduction in mall trips is the end result which for me and my wallet is a big plus if the wife is driving
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The downside is Melbourne city. I really don't thin k I could cope longer than a week. Insane traffic, inane drivers.
Mine has a roof top tent now so completely an outdoors vehicle other than 4wD shops
I live in a suburb of Chicago and use my Fieldmaster to commute to work every day! Half highway and the other half city streets. Absolutely all in the city and love it! No problems at all!
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The power steering pump noise is definitely one of the worst features of city driving. Actually driving down a quiet dirt track is bad with the squealing noise too..
For me, it would kind of depend on the city. Since you’re in Canada - I would say Toronto or Vancouver absolutely no problem - Montreal I would not think it would be a great time. In the US - LA fine (since you never exceed 5mph in traffic), Boston a headache. The bigger the highways and surface streets, the more available the surface parking, the easier it is. I drive it in Chicago a fair bit, including downtown - not a problem. I just plan the parking garage or warn the valet about the height. I watched the valet try to do a u-turn - which was amusing. But all the other cars stay clear. In the city, it’s a very friendly “F you.” Not a Cybertruck “F you.”
Clearly you have never parked outside an outdoor cafe and had the fans keep running for 15 minutes.
Yeah, that's where I put my sticker. I've never been to a garage that displayed ceiling height in meters or (just) inches.
Totally, across North America the cities get newer and less densely concentrated as you move west and south from the north east. In Boston/NYC very few garages can safely handle a stock Grenadier (forget about it if you add even a cpl of inches with a roof rack let alone taller tires) and street parking is very limited. I havent been to Australia in like 20 years but i remember Syndney and Brisbane as much closer in design/architecture LA than Boston or Manhattan.
