You don't need a bigger SUV, you need a roof box.
It’s roof box season. That magical time of the year when everything from Subaru Outbacks tosprout racks and sleek plastic cargo carriers from Thule, Yakima or whatever was on sale at REI. Short of a Princess Cruise t-shirt or a group of Germans wearing cargo shorts with black socks and sandals, nothing announces summertime vacation more loudly than a roof box.
Right now, though, good luck finding a dealer willing to let a top-end CR-V hybrid go out at sticker. Thirteen cubic feet doesn’t seem like much—it’s 1.8 cubes short of the trunk space in a 2023 Civic sedan—but it’s all flat and useful. The 65-inch-long, 34.5-inch-wide rooftop cargo carrier easily swallowed my soft carry-on sized bag, my wife’s similar hard-shell bag, 31-pounds of Science Diet dry dog food and a foldable dog crate. Honda lists the box’s weight capacity at 110 lbs, and we were maybe 20 or 30 lbs shy of that. I guess we could have added a cat too.
One good photo of your dog can make the whole trip worthwhile. This is Caroline, the chocolate lab who didn’t ever ride in the roof box. In total, says Honda, that samba produces a peak combined output of 204-horsepower. But that lasts only as long as there’s juice to squeezed from the dinky battery. And once the stored zap is gone, the four-cylinder engine is tasked with hauling a vehicle that weighs nearly two-tons on its lonesome.According to the U.S. Census Bureau there are 83.9 million families with an average of 3.13 people in each one. That’s most of us.“Caroline has her head up,” Nina reported from the aft couch.
Summer travel is a series of impromptu, 20-minute, casual friendships. The little kids playing with Caroline and Cleo? Didn’t know their names, didn’t know their parents’ names, didn’t know their work histories, prison records, religious affiliations, hopes, dreams, or medical conditions. But I learned they were from Provo, traveling back from visiting family in Kentucky, and for 20 minutes we were buds.
Anyone driving a 1979 Pontiac Firebird Esprit in Idaho is a hero. And worthy of a 20 minute friendship,
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